Helpless

You scream my name constantly
Begging for me to halt the pain
Salty teardrops sprinkle my worried face
As I realize there is nothing I can do to take away your suffering

 

There is a fire sizzling behind your burned out eyes
Just waiting to be released from the cage that holds you in
You would be the one inflicting the pain if only you were let out
I force myself to believe that you are strong enough to find a way out on your own

 

The hatred and disgust for the ones who chained you boils inside of me
Do they even know how to feel love for another human being?
If my doubts grow any stronger I will no longer have an ounce of hope left
To breathe in and breathe out is how I instruct myself so I do not panic

 

A crushed dream of a better life up ahead for both of us

The broken reveries of a soul who was once an avid dreamer

The heartless actions of ones far more powerful than either of us lost causes

Maybe we could have fought through this if we had kept the fantasy alive

 

As they say, there is no turning back now from this frightening reality

Where you shout for help, but no one has the authority to do a single thing

Atleast it will be over for you one day, I will have to view it time and time again

As innocent villagers are turned into raging, desperate versions of themselves

 

My hands grip the bars that hold you in, raw from holding on for too long
Is there any hope left in what seems like a sanctuary of despair?
I think not, but I am forced to continue watching your slow torture
I

  am

        helpless.

Reviews

[blueseeker]

the use of imagery is nicely done. as a reader, i love to capture the emotion of the writer. you have done this very well. also, the structure of the last three words adds your uniqueness.

[closed]

dramatic and suspenseful, tied up quite nicely in the last stanza.^

-Dream

[None]

Where is this and what is the relationship between the speaker and the tortured? I appreciate the irony between the fact that the speaker is tortured by the imprisonment of the one she speaks to. But, who is torturing them and what? Why will the other's end and the speaker's endure? Fallen angels? Mother/daughter? Husband/wife? The line about villagers really through me off...

Great piece. Moving, but a little too vague. Connect me to the speaker and what is really happening.

By the way, love the ingenuity and engineering that went into the last line. :) It serves this poem well.

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I loved it. Great read. I love the...everything.

[eeoopig]

sad, but nice. good job, this is a really emotional piece and expresses the feeling of sadness well

[Owlgirl]

Very emotional and well written, you may want to work on the flow a little more, but overall, it's exceptional. This is one of my favorites of yours. The anxiety, the truth, it seems to just pour off the page, wonderful!

[Kelsy]

Nice poem,vividly illustrated.

[Dream Hunter]

a touching poem. it is always a very difficult to accept the fact that you are helpless in a situation. good job!