Sep 2017
What can I do to comfort you?
Would talking help at all?
A gentle, friendly touch?
(Or would that be too much?)
I don't know what might do any good,
but I know you'd tell me if you could.
Perhaps you just need to be aware
that I am here, and that I care.
Would talking help at all?
A gentle, friendly touch?
(Or would that be too much?)
I don't know what might do any good,
but I know you'd tell me if you could.
Perhaps you just need to be aware
that I am here, and that I care.
Written as a response to challenge in a poetry workshop I belong to in real life, to write a short poem based on a word chosen at random from a book. The word was "comfort".
To be truthful, the original idea was to use no more than forty words, and rhyming was not mentioned, but a couple of revisions later, this is what I produced.
To be truthful, the original idea was to use no more than forty words, and rhyming was not mentioned, but a couple of revisions later, this is what I produced.
