Let me

You see this is how I feel.

I’m seeing you below me, at the bottom of a deep, damp well.

You aren’t looking at me,

You are just sitting there, hugging your legs and your head between your knees.

You don’t say a word but i can hear the soft echoes as it bounces up the walls to my ears.

You’re crying.

I try to scream your name, I want to say,

“Don’t you worry, I’m going to help you. You don’t have to cry.”

“I’m coming.”

And I do, I do say those words.

But you make no motion, no action, to tell me that you heard me.

So I grab the rope hanging by my side and toss it down to you, holding the other end so that I could pull you up.

But.

The rope is too short.

So i tie the rope around my waist and…

screamsofthecrypticheart