Consoling pain
From the moment of self-awareness
Pain has been my life.
Mental, physical, emotional
Finding solstice in brief moments of pleasure
Only to become fearful of pleasure for the anguish that ensues.
For I know that pain is there…
Waiting…
Patient as death
However, unlike death pain seeks no end.
Time after time, punishing
With no remorse
- Relentless
As I grow, pain walks beside me
Always there to remind me that I am alive that I feel that I exist.
So death, be gone from my door for you will visit but once,
Pain will never leave me and I wish not to leave him.
~Arnold Bailey