I've been reading a lot about pain management and most of it doesn't involve physical distress. Mental and emotional pain can be direct offshoots of body malaise and vice versa. As a symbiotic trio, it seems we're constantly chasing a cure for the pains that ail us.
My head aches. I grew up observing a grandmother get "sick" headaches...modern terminology=migraines. It astounds me that she was able to get through life with this malady. Minus medication, they are life sapping beasts! Even with its numbing power, I'm able to feel the drum beat of pain.
It seems the genesis of our being is to avoid pain...hungering for more, loneliness, heartbreak, physical deterioration...all inevitable so why not learn to coexist rather than to fight its existence?
We run from it;
We covet its power.
Our fear of pain transcends
Our other needs.
Hurting hearts and
Insane gripping thoughts
Keep us transfixed,
Keep us chasing
A cure.
Why not adapt? Why not accept?
Pain always happens with mind, body, and heart.
Living within it, sharing its confines...
Why not survive? Why not start?
Writhing among us,
The broken in pain,
Beating a drum,
Escaping in vain
It's ongoing.
We run toward it;
We covet its strength.
Our embrace transports us
Our agony becomes sane.
Pain killer is us.
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