Pain
So familiar to me now,
in all its painful ways.
Pain throbbing in the night
pain beating through the days.
Shocking pain numbing pain
pain you treat like a friend.
Pain in the beginning pain in the middle
and pain at the painful end.
Pain in your bones pain in your joints
pain in the small of your back.
Pain like a drip pain like a trickle
pain like a full flowing tap.
Waves of pain stabs of pain
pain that tears you apart.
And that worst of pain,
that pain of pains
the pain of a broken heart.