Why do you store up your kindness for strangers
Merely passing through your life's stage
When I've been with you for decades
But all that's left for you to give me
Are venemous words and misplaced hatred
It's like we're playing pin the tail on the donkey
But instead of pinning your disappointment on the source
You pin it on me as if for safe keeping
My hands and heart are burning
From carrying your toxic burdens
Why does loving you mean I never get to see the you I love?\n\nAbigail Hauschild
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/misplaced-burdens/
Merely passing through your life's stage
When I've been with you for decades
But all that's left for you to give me
Are venemous words and misplaced hatred
It's like we're playing pin the tail on the donkey
But instead of pinning your disappointment on the source
You pin it on me as if for safe keeping
My hands and heart are burning
From carrying your toxic burdens
Why does loving you mean I never get to see the you I love?\n\nAbigail Hauschild
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/misplaced-burdens/
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00:00Why do you store up your kindness for strangers?
00:03Merely passing through your life's stage.
00:06When I've been with you for decades.
00:08But all that's left for you to give me
00:11are venemous words and misplaced hatred.
00:14It's like we're playing pin the tail on the donkey.
00:17But instead of pinning your disappointment on the source,
00:21you pin it on me as if for safe keeping.
00:24My hands and heart are burning
00:26from carrying your toxic burdens.
00:29Why does loving you mean I never get to see the you I love?