When you find your people have difficulties
managing aspects of their lives
and you want to help them
you feel a need in your body
to get them the support they require
but you know they have to figure things out
all on their own
because otherwise
they’ll simply be dependent forever,
it’s a painful state.

It’s an ache in you
that you cannot satisfy
a desperate thirst that cannot be quenched.

This wound
may be worse for you
than your people.
They only have the initial problem.
You have that
plus so much more.