Therapy Poem by Sara Tehrani

Let me borrow your emotions for a second please
Let me drown my voice out with every inch of feeling that sinks within you
Does it hurt to be heard for the first time ever in your life?
Does it feel a painful ache when you get something you’ve wanted for too long?

Let me borrow your thoughts, so I can wear your shoes for this hour or two
Let me lend you a helping hand, I know at first you won’t understand
Does it hurt to be heard for the first time ever in your life?
Does it feel a painful ache when you get something so real that you believed you would never feel?

Don’t let me put words in your mouth, instead let me just listen to yours
Don’t let me push you away, instead help me to help you to stay
I won’t be moved in a way for you to scare me off
I won’t be moved in a way for me to think I can’t help you
I just want to be true, be moved by you, I would love to just listen

And if you choose to just be silent sitting beside me in this park
If you choose to not move an inch closer, I will understand, I won’t force you to open your hands
Instead I will put myself inside your shoes.
Instead I will remember what it was like to feel the blues.