What do you do?

What do you do when you can see someone going down a long dark road, holding onto optimism, that has only let them down before?  Yet clinging to the feeling that it can't get any worse, and this time will be different, when we all know that it won't. But, pray silent prayers that maybe, just maybe, it will. What do you do when someone is pulling someone elses strings?  What do you do when they have always been there for you, and while you can be there for them, you just can't save them? 

What do you say when someone you love  and know so well, can't make you understand why this is the road that they must take? Why they just can't let it go? How do you watch with dry eyes when those actions are hurting others?  When the one who is causing the hurt, is hurting too? 

What do you do when everyone has turned their backs on someone and you are one of the only ones still around?  What do you do when you are left hurting so badly when they are hurting, that you just want to save them from themselves...but can't?

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What do you do when you see someone you love acting out? What do you do when they have so much love for you but at the same time really can't stand you? What do you do when patience is gone? When they hear you, but don't really hear you. What do you do when you just want to talk some sense into them, but they aren't trying to hear it?  What do you do when you are trying to save someone from regrets, but they just won't listen? What do you do when you have come to accept that you have hurt them deeper than they have hurt you?  What do you do when they are still holding onto shit that you have long since forgotten about? What do you do when you really just want to say "Build a Fucking Bridge" but you do care and don't want to do any more damage?

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What do you do, when really there is nothing left to do? What do you do when walking away is not an option?  

Pray.