What I Want From You

I don’t want to rip away the walls you have built. And I don’t want to sneak my way in. I hear that slight edge of sadness tinging your laughter, and I want to steal it away.
To give you one small smile for one small second, where you just are there, happy, smiling. I know you are too strong to let me see the scars and too proud to let me hear the cries. But I want to be there when you fall asleep so I can soothe the scars a little, wipe away the blood.
I know you will stand up to fight tomorrow again. I won’t go so far as to say I can ever fight your battles for you, I am not nearly brave enough. But when you come back wounded, but unbroken, I just want to be there to hold you for a few seconds when it doesn’t matter that you don’t need to be held by someone else.
Where for just one moment, you let me share the pain I cant even hope to understand. I just hope that as you hide away the pain and the sadness from the world, I can offer few memories where you can just forget and smile.