I want to take hold of it,
and make it leave you be.
But it holds you tighter then I can
and hurts you more deeply then I feel.

How can I help, 
how can I share, 
in this eternal torment,
you keep so tightly locked up, 
within yourself.

So I stand by, 
helpless and afraid, 
wanting to help,
and feeling useless.
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