I Understand

This Burden

All I ask is for you to call.

For you to visit.

For you to stop getting arrested.

To stop doing drugs.

To stop lying.

I just want the best for you

But you don't want to try.

You don't want to do the work.

So I have all this burden on my shoulders

Because you won't take it for yourself.

I used to not mind it

But the more you piled on me,

The stronger I got.

And the more I realized,

I wasn't helping you,

I was doing everything for you.

I needed to make you do it yourself.

And now you're not doing so well.

And you're mad at me

For doing it to you.

But you did it to yourself.

You did it to me.

I don't know what to do for you.

Because I can't help you any more.

I can't take your burden

When I have my own to bare.