Saturday, November 27, 2021

P for Pain

 

            P for Pain

 

                                           

P  is for pain,

is also for pleasure.


 

That drop of blood

Which is supposed to torment me

Actually excites me

excruciatingly enough

P is actually for perspective

What pain is for a masochist.

 

Pain is the paint

I brush my body (heart) with

So that I don’t have to

Process my pertinent emotions.

 

Pain is the feeling I embrace

The bruise which I keep on picking

A gift which keeps on giving.

 


The obvious physical pain of

Broken bones

The odious psychological pain of

Broken homes

I embrace it after all

only because 

 I don’t know how to exist

 as a person

Without pain

 at all.

6 comments:

  1. I'm sure none of us can claim never to have experienced pain at ll;

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  2. Pain is part of living. Still, I wish my own existence involved a bit less pain. All right, a lot less.

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  3. I like this part most:
    "The obvious physical pain of
    Broken bones
    The odious psychological pain of
    Broken homes"
    As a teenager I engaged in self-harm, so I relate to this.

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  4. Pain as a necessary evil. Some pain is pleasurable. A good work out that leaves the muscles sore. But some I would rather live without.

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  5. We must experience both pain and joy in life to appreciate both.

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  6. "I don’t know how to exist
    as a person
    Without pain
    at all."
    Pain has shaped me more than anything else. Unfortunately so.

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