Lead to Water

I held your hand through the silence  
Watched you stare but never speak  
The tears were there behind the eyelids  
But the soul was still too weak  

I said the words they told me to  
“Time will heal, you’ll make it through”  
But grief don’t follow maps or clocks  
It waits behind unopened locks  


You can lead a heart to water  
But you can’t make it cry  
You can stand beside the sorrow  
But you can’t ask it why  
Mourning comes like morning light  
Slow and soft, not overnight  
You can lead a soul to stillness  
But you can’t make it drink  


I tried to fix what wasn’t broken  
Tried to rush what needed rest  
But pain don’t bloom from pretty tokens  
It grows from truth confessed  

Some walk through fire, some through rain  
Some just sit inside their pain  
And all we do is hold the space  
Until they find their healing pace  


Grief ain’t weakness, grief ain’t wrong  
It’s the echo of love that’s gone  
And when they’re ready, they will speak  
But not because we made them weak  


You can lead a heart to water  
But you can’t make it cry  
You can whisper through the silence  
But you can’t teach goodbye  
Mourning’s not a race to run  
It’s a shadow chasing sun  
You can lead a soul to stillness  
But you can’t make it drink  

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