Long Walk

i would like to have
the feeling
of being important enough
to someone
for them to know when
things "are not okay"
without me needing to say
"things are not okay"
each and every time
nobody wants the work
of having to think
of deeper meaning
people gobble the things they are fed
waiting for the hand to appear
and the command to be given
before they can eat

stupid fucking shitty little things
i try to catch in others
i want to be comforted
without a cry

as a rule,
people wait
for a problem
to arise
before
they look for
a solution
instead of
trying
to prevent it
from happening
in the first
place