How?
how could you help –
how?
you lack understanding
you drown in assumptions
gorge on the cherry picked sections
that become your only consumption
how –
how could you help?
your people skills are out to sea
you are at the quayside
without a tugboat of honesty
you constantly fall over
the ridgeways of your own fragility
how –
how could you help?
you patronise people
with boxes and lists
and at best, you are a fantasist
you make up stories
to feed such guilty needs
and you watch, as your attention bleeds
how –
how could you help?
you want to help vulnerable people
but you are vulnerable yourself
you cannot deal with who you are
and you make up things about everybody else
how –
how could you help?
James Garratt – 2006
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How? – Written November 2006 (Aged 31)
