Help me

I never had the power to say these words before

But please will you help me

Sometimes it seems

You just do not see

How fragile I can sometimes be

So deeply in need

Of support

Sometimes I purport to be the one

Who is so strong

And can just stoically carry on

With the burden of it all

But don’t be fooled

That said you know I always help myself

When I can

But so often

I silence the longing

And seem to be far more in control than I actually am

Sometimes I long to just be held

By someone who will be strong for me

For a while

And sometimes though its so hard to say

I really need your help

And pray that you will stay

Even when it seems

I want you

To be so far away