Could I have helped?

Odd.

The feeling is still settling into my mind.

No reason it would have been seen,
  but I have been there,
    and all it can take is the one thing.

With amazement turned to shock,
  I wonder....

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the closer the feeling the need for the poet is to stay ambiguous in order to be able to filter...and write about a situation the best we can.

i feel this write in terms of suicide...i have known them...and always wondered...could i have helped?

but i don't know....much like anne sexton said "suicides have a language of their own...and in the cupboard they wait"
inevitable? perhaps...

anyway...that is how i related to this piece...it is really good poetry...as your work consistently is.

[Lyn Anderson]

After reading several of your writes, I would say a trademark of you would be ambiguous simplicity. But the beauty is, the story may be somewhat ambiguous, but the emotions never are. I know to what recent event I would attribute this poem, but I know where my mind is, and that doesn't mean I am right.

[Jon Roggie]

I tuned out yesterday. Looked at a response to one from the day before, and it just hit me. Subject is too close.

[Lyn Anderson]

Apparently it is for a lot of us. I wish it wasn't.