When the pain is so great but it isn’t yours
and you feel the energy just pouring out of the body,
just watch it going,

helpless to do anything about it,
wanting to be useful
but knowing there’s nothing to do,
you know you’d trade something significant
to be in a position to be able to cure
to support
to heal in some way.

This is when a devil’s deal
would be quite convenient
and when too few demons
come calling these days.

You’re just left to your own devices,
alone with your friend
and their pain
and your helplessness

in the situation.

Not a happy party, there.