Empathy

I feel
I feel you
feel you crying
dying
and I cry too
I can feel you in pain
I try to whisper your name
I hear the hurt in your voice
trying to sing it away
I reach
for you
reach as far as I can
but not far enough
that i can pull you by the hand
back
back to me, to life
to light, to laughter
but my reach
falls
short.
I sit
sit up here
gazing down
at you, my heart,
my heart breaking
as you break,
weeping frustration
as you weep
for I cannot reach
cannot lift you
to brush away a single tear
off your perfect
hurting eyes
reflecting our breaking,
hurting souls.
I sit up here
dying
as you
my love, my heart, my light
die
because I just
can't


reach