I want to save you

I want to help you sleep
I want to make you feel loved
I want to take away the loneliness
I want to take away the doubt
I want to take away the pain

If I could just find that magic word
The one gesture that makes it click
The one solution that solves the issue
The insight that changes the patterns


I want to save you
But I know that I can’t

I know that it’s not up to me
I know that I shouldn’t have that as a goal
I know that it’s not simply a choice that I can make
I know that I have next to no influence over it
I know that I just have to hope

I have to look out for myself, too
I can get too invested
Hurt myself in the process
I’ve done it before, but I’ve learned from that


I want to save you
I know that I can’t
But I can try

I can try to be kind
I can try to show you an alternative
I can try to explain what I learned
I can try to help
I can try to make it easier, if only a little

At least, I want to make you feel heard
I can make you feel seen and not alone
And who knows, we might get lucky
Maybe I actually fix something, just by being myself

And if not, then at least I’ve been a decent human
I can try to do that, at least