The danger of empathy

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Though you put me through agonizing and

unforgivable- exertion.

I willingly allowed

your burdens to become not just yours,

but mine.

The truths you thought you told,

they were just another facade of yours.

Projecting your insecurities and turning them,

into mine.

Just because you couldn't handle the burden yourself.

I told you I'd be there for you,

not that I'd tear my skin into band-aids;

to cover your wounds and create more of my own.

I struggled to carry your burdens as well as my own,

using this fragment back of mine.

How do you love someone who gives you the weight of the world,

instead of the weight of their heart?

- I think I care too much.

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