You push and pull

To beckon for a better life

Sorrow you cry when no one is watching

You hide all emotions of a bad day

You tear yourself down

Thinking you own nothing

Thinking you are worthless

You reduce your value to none

You act out trying to fill that void

You feel validation only from being used

The feeling feels nice but isn’t permanent

I pull to push

To urge a better life for you

To wipe the tears no one sees

I embrace every emotion you have

I build you up while draining myself

I find everything in you

I see the worth you have, bountless

I stand by while everything rages on

Only to want to do more

Not to let me in

I stand stranded from you

Unable to control how I feel for you

Yet the road we walk is far

The rivers we take are different currents

I would waste a lifetime for one chance to show you

Just how much you are to me

One chance to pull you from your dread

But I’m only wasting time