THE PROTECTOR
By Grace Elston
Bones, it is heartbreaking.
Why? Why can’t you change?
I know you’re scared.
It’s inside you. It’s in there, you just…
Open yourself!
Why is it not okay?
How can you continue this life if
You don’t trust yourself?
The one – the only one who
Truly connects to your soul.
I see her.
She refuses to let herself feel.
This time is the last –
I have to move on.
Her selfishness causes insufferable torment;
She will not love. And she will not
Let me go. Please let me go!
She says I need you here.
I look, searching, for something…
A glimmer, a hope, a life.
I can’t.
I can’t be your protector.
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