How...?

Willow to Elric of Melniboné 3/20/93 (yes, THAT Elric)

I want to feel my love for you...
But how can I feel love, when I cannot feel your love,
Hidden beneath the ashes from the fires of your anger?

I want to show my care for you...
But how can I care, when I myself am drowning
In the deepest waters of your dark despair?

I want to share with you...
But how can I share, when I watch you run screaming
From the still peace of my tenderness?

I want to help you...
But how can I help when I cannot find you,
A grain of sand in a bleak desert of apathy?

I want to hold you...
But how can I hold you when I cannot touch you,
Hiding in the storm clouds of your emotions?

I want to love you...
But how can I love you when you don't believe me,
Staring into the mirror of your insecurities?

I want to be your friend...
But how can I befriend you when you hide
Adrift in the smoke of your own self-destruction?