When feeling’s deep, we others cannot see it.
Please do not think we mean to do you harm —
I’ve no advice for you; my only offer
Is just the lightest touch along your arm
To stand beside you, here along these waters,
As tears of generations fill the bay:
A touch to let you know I care about you
Much more than words of poetry
Could say
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