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Dark Poetry #3

all i did was watch

theSunflower
Junior Member

since 2002-11-17

Posts 11

0 posted 2002-11-17 10:58 AM

I watched in horror as you slipped all the way down. I didn’t help you. I didn’t even try. I sit and did nothing I couldn’t even cry. I watched in horror as you lay in pain. I hurt, but not for you, as you. I felt it, through you. I couldn’t move. My thoughts inextricable, intense flashes of color took the place of emotions that I couldn’t understand, or maybe that I didn’t want to understand. I wanted so badly to solace you, to hold you, to bleed with you. But I couldn’t. I wanted so badly to run screaming into the safety of my car, drive away and never look back. But I couldn’t. I sat paralyzed, my mouth was dry, my eyes full of tears that would never get the chance to run down my cheek. I did nothing. NOTHING!!!

neveah5
Member

since 2002-11-22

Posts 197
Ohio

1 posted 2002-11-22 09:49 PM

sometimes there is nothing you can do..

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

2 posted 2002-12-18 12:43 PM

Hmmm.... This bears consideration (or at least comprehension)

You were watching someone bleed by yr car? A collision, maybe? Sadly, the first impulse when you've hit someone is not "I wish I could bleed with you" but "Oh no, what have *I* done." I I I me me me. Survival is a selfish impulse, but it's gotten us this far, has it not?

Ramble off.

Interesting writing.

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