Pain (Group)

Note: This is a group poem in which each of the boys in the writing group contributed at least one 3 line stanza on their chosen theme of Pain.

Pain

Pain is indescribable

Pain is an enigma

Why won't my pain go away?

Pain is bad

Pain is really bad

Pain is like a pencil in my back

In the beginning

The pain was tolerable

As sunburn soothed by aloe

But the pain worsened

like skin blistered

from the touch of red hot iron

My pain is unbearable

It splits my skull like a knife

going through butter

It's like the look a man gets

when he knows he's going to die

The pain in his eyes gives it all away

This pain is like a sore

that won't go away

I try to itch it but it just stays.

All I see is pain

I'm living unashamed

But also dying by the gain

How can I maintain

With these demons in my brain

Pain can be violent

Pain can be silent

Silent waters run deep

You reap what you sow

And you sow what you reap.

The pain was not physical

Heartbreak is

The pain searing inside my chest

My pain is not your pain

It's all my own

So don't you ask

Just leave me alone