Help me see

   Close my eyes to erase
the tightness in chest. My
heart beating rapidly.

    Oh how I want badly
to forget the faces, the actions
that triggered these tears.

   To run away. Still I
know I must stay sitting
here. Quietly. Patiently.

   Oh to just go. Escape
into the night. Just drive.
Empty the eyes, the mind
of memories.

   Can you help me?
Hold my hand and say
I am right to stand still.

   Oh how the water
streaks down my cheeks.
I laugh. The cynic
inside quakes at the
irony of questions
that ring loudly in head.

   How, please explain,
do I end all empty emotions?
How do I kill the hurt
that beckons the heart to
choose?

       Help me see.