contrition.

Don't walk down that road

I wish I had said

Instead
I was content with
  the silence
then and
  the sadness afterwards

It was not safe
  going alone
  the way he did

The ground was
  starved and weak

  the holes gaping
and deep

Maybe
thinking back
part of me did
 somehow know
  that was why
  he wanted to go

But another part of me
had the same kind of
  somehow knowing
  that he just as much
  wanted someone
  to
       and I'm sorry I never did
  say

don't walk down that road

friend.