Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #496

You're Hurting
by Belinda Roddie

You're hurting, and I can't reduce that hurt,
but I can make you tea and bring you snacks
and fetch your very blanket while you flirt
with pain and existential crisis. Knacks
for comfort aside, I still can't make it stop.

Your tears will fall regardless of my tone
or my intent, and while salt water drops,
all I can do is hold you, solid stone
but warm against you, and tell you I'm here,
and I've got you - at least, physically.

Will it matter much? Who knows. The spear
of sorrow that has lanced into you leaves
a scar that I can't cover up with sweet
kisses, but I can provide love and heat.