helpless or connected?

so i wrote my friend.
the one who just told me of a horrible
loss of one of her friends.

typed words of little comfort,
as there's so little i can offer.

felt frustration once again in being
helpless and not being able to do anything.

i didn't tell her that.
i just felt it.

she wrote back....
and with not knowing i was feeling that,
she told me of a bone sigh she was
going to give her friend.

i had been crying all thru her note.
and then when i got to that part....
about her giving her bone sigh to her
friend...
and she typed the bone sigh for me...

i cried harder.

i closed my eyes and bowed to whatever
this power is above us.

we cannot understand our connections.
all we can do is believe in them.

and to continue to offer our hearts.
maybe that matters a lot more than i
can ever really understand....