I couldn’t stand to see him suffer but I knew there was nothing I could do. When you love someone you want to give them the world, to cure their pain but somethings you just can’t help with.

War had built him into the man who kneeled before me but it had also shattered him so he could no longer stand. He was the strongest I knew but the things that had gone on during that time were unspeakable, unimaginable.

The pain that was behind those eyes were like daggers through my heart and I was determined to relieve even some his pain. I was willing to spend countless nights up soothing what I knew could not be soothed and talking through every replay of what had happened just for even as second of relief.

The thing is though you can’t force it. You could kill your self with the effort put in but you will never get through if they don’t want you to. Sometimes they feel like they have things under control, other times they feel like the are a burden that no one deserves. So how do you battle the past, the present, and the mind...