I see

 

I see your hands shake

As you make the effort to eat your food

I feel the quaking inside

That got you to here

I feel the burden of tears for a grief I cannot name

Slowly rising in my chest

I think of how it was to be younger

And to know it was really you who needed protection

Why did it hurt me so much when you didn’t understand?

Then I was only a child with a heart that was aching

Knowing nothing of deeper human things

If I could I would lead you to a place

Where you didn’t have to work and try so hard

Carrying the ancestral burden we both did

But I am not God and so I can only witness

What is is I see and feel deep inside

Possibly I will never fully be able to give words to these truths

But just for today

Even though you cannot hear me I want you to know

I see

And feel it all

Mostly the great strength it has taken

Not to be totally destroyed