The Sin-Eater

I’ve listened to so many people about their problems and have kept it all inside. Never once did I expose anything anyone has ever said to me. I am saturated with so many people’s problems, their sins, their deepest-most darkened parts of their lives that could just eat them alive… I sit here today with dozens upon dozens of secrets, all just eating at my soul. Am I a Sin-Eater? Because that would make so much sense to me… Even if I have not done any such ritual… I believe it has to do more with the things from people that you take in, that hold for them. The things that pain someone the most that they can leave with you so that they may live their life. At times I wonder where most of these people that have laid their burden down on me, where would they be had they not. I wonder where life would have gone for them without that sense of relief. Without that feeling of, “it’s out there.” Keeping it inside, hidden only to show its ugly face when you don’t need it. I just want those that have come to me to know, I will never say a word. I haven’t yet and I’ll die with all that you’ve told me. Simply because I love you all. I am your Sin-Eater and I will continue to devour your secrets, sins and tragedies. I am your Dracula in a shining armor. I am the home you can leave your burden and the garden you can bury your secrets. Who am I? I am a Sin-Eater, plain and simple.