Other People's Pain

I call it Spangler's Patient Confidentiality,
Or the sensitive things strong people run by me:
A network of intrigue that grows to a maze
Or an unsurprise breakup that could last for days.

Unborn relationships based on lies end.
I learn the truth about someone I thought was my friend.
Another is lonely, and troubled by years.
We're too young to hang all these weights on my ears.

I try to listen, don't advise what to do,
Because, what a surprise, I've my own problems too,
But how much I could solve, oh, how'd everyone gain,
If I could only be stronger than all my friends' pain.