Love Poem: The Burden Is Light
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Written by: Ann Foster

The Burden Is Light

The Burden is Light

I go to your house, 
and make tea.
Talk to me. 

I clean your dishes. 
I mop the floor.
I start dinner. 
I am here. 

My life, 
it has things wrong.
Yet, it is you, 
you that is suffering. 

I see that. 
So I lift the weight…
all of it…
as I can carry, 
to share what it is, 
that I can.  

There is nothing more,
I can do…
to shift my load. 
I am tired. 
Yet I can see, 
that by helping you, 
I am helping me.

Together, 
the load…
has no weight, 
at all.