Posts Tagged ‘try to help’

As Folks Fall: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku Lament

September 26, 2016

As folks fall, reach out./
If they turn away, you don’t/
have to watch them crash.

Hurt Instead Of Help: Romantic Blogging Free Verse Lament

July 19, 2014

Don’t you hate it when
you try to help,
but hurt instead?
And leave her
standing on the curb,
or staring at her phone,
or leaning, hands limp, on the keyboard,
or slouched in her chair,
or sitting in her car,
or slumped against the doorway,
crying,
suffering,
heart breaking,
and wondering:
“What the hell
just happened?”

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Parental Help Fail Pain: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku Lament

September 28, 2012

Only a parent/
can know the hurt of failing/
when trying to help.

OR

Only parents get/
the pain of failing when they/
try to help their kids.