Double-Edged Heart

I wear your pain like a second skin

Every tear you shed, I feel it deep within

I walk through your shadow, lost in the night

A candle burning out, too weak to fight

I hold your sorrow like it's fire in the rain

But love, sometimes, feels like drowning in pain

Empathy, you're a double-edged heart

You tear me apart, yet you're still a work of art

A silver sword that cuts so deep

Loving you is a promise I can't keep

You were the sky, I was the cloud

Floating in your world, swallowed by the crowd

But empathy's a mirror, cracked and cold

Reflecting your pain till it takes its hold

I held your grief like a lover's touch

But gave too much, now it hurts too much

Empathy, you're a double-edged heart

You tear me apart, yet you're still a work of art

I gave too much and lost my way

Empathy led my soul astray

A silver sword that cuts so deep

Loving you is a promise I can't keep

Empathy, you're a double-edged heart

You tear me apart, yet you're still a work of art

A silver sword that cuts so deep

Loving you is a promise I can't keep

Now I wear your sorrow like a ghost in the night

Empathy's a battle I'll never win in this fight

I'll carry you forever, but at what cost?

Empathy, you're the love that I've lost