((A Bright Red Scream))

Just perusing my daughter's xanga blog today. And noticed one of the blogrings she's got linked on her page. ((A Bright Red Scream)) This Blogring has links to 90 blogs, of youths who cut and self-injure.

The common thread...they are screaming for help...fighing depression, and over all bad life situations.

I see it up close. And can't find the answers or the magic words.

finding her

don't know how to help her
don't know if I can
reaching out useless hands, offering inadequate words
standing by and watching the cut
watching the pain that refuses to be named
she finds release her way
lets it flow out
dancing on danger, flirting with disaster

if I only had magic words
miraculous turns of a phrase
that would heal and mend
and make everything new again.