Help

I could not
ask -
no, not for help.

I did not have
the words
or know how

to reach out
and say
I can't
go
on.

I didn't know
I didn't ask
and so you
didn't know
and could not
tell me what
I needed to hear.

I prayed for
someone
to hear
what could
not be said.

And in the
darkness
waited.

© Eleanor Clark
27 December 2013