Asking For A Friend Poem by Morgan Copeland

She begs
"Heal me
What do I do?
When "God is enough"
Isn't enough?
When my limbs are tired
And my lungs are weak
From aiming for tough?
When it gets harder to resist the easy way out?
When I inhale and forget to let it out?
Mend me
Where do I go?
When my destination left me behind?
When the way back home is too hard to find?
When I can't breathe in my own skin?
When I get in my feelings, and out of my mind,
And can't open the door back in?
Restore me
Why do I try?
When my flesh is sorrow, and my blood is pain?
When I search my reflection for a reason in vain?
When I look at life from the other side of a windowpane?
When I forget sometimes the sound of my own name?
When life feels like a never-ending game?
When I give it all up for nothing to gain?
When it hurts, even more, to realize it'll never change?
Know me"
She begs,
And she reaches a hand,
Hoping against hope
Someone will pull her out
And she won't pull them in.


MBC 03.19.2020