A/N: I was thinking about the heavy stuff a lot of my friends are going through, and I wrote this, because I really want to help them but I can't really. I don’t usually do poetry, and I do free-form (or that word for non-rhyming poetry that I forgot because I’m stupid) stuff like this even less, so this is a new thing for me. Be completely brutal, I didn’t edit this so I want reviews that tell me what I did wrong and what to fix. Point out the tiniest error, please.

Let Me Help You

I see what you’re going through,
I see it, but I don’t know
I want to help.

I want to help
but I don’t know how,
and it hurts.

You say I don’t know a thing about it,
you’re right
you say that I don’t understand,
you’re right.
I want to.

I see you suffering
it tears me in half.
My heart aches, my eyes burn
because of what you feel
and because I can’t help.

I can only imagine,
only guess at your anguish,
haven’t been there,
can’t say I understand.
But I want to.

You say I don’t understand,
I want to.

Make me understand.

Pour out your soul to me,
tell me what you feel,
so I can feel it too,
so I can know
just some fleeting shadow
of your pain.

I want to know what it’s like,
I want to be there beside you,
suffer with you,
ache with you,
and take your pain into me.
I don’t care how much it hurts,
as long as I can say I helped.

Make me understand.

Let me help you.