Stranger

She looked into her eyes
And saw everything that words could never say
Because it was all there;
The emptiness, the hurt, the pain
Everything that she could never quite express in words
Was staring back at her from the eyes of this stranger
And in that moment, she knew that if she could just make it hurt a little less for someone else,
Then maybe it'd be worth it.
Then maybe she'd be okay.

Nyamedo