Pain Grows Things

constant joy makes one complacent (and foolish)

pain, real pain
makes you into things

you never thought could be

pain, true pain
teaches things to you

you could not know otherwise

pain, oh faithful pain
is always there for us

we would not feel otherwise

Author's Note

Reviews

[Annebelle Ashire]

No matter how ugly or how beautiful,
No matter how present or how absent..
That pain will forever carry a waning noose-like chord around our souls, with a gentle tug ever so often as a reminder.

[Davidgeo]

Pain isn't a noose-like anything all things considered equal. Pain is your teacher, pleasure is your lover... neither exists without the other.

[Annebelle Ashire]

To each their own

[Davidgeo]

As you like it... and whatever whatever.

[Chris Shaw]

If you don't feel real pain you never know true happiness. I can attest to that.

Chris

[Davidgeo]

I firmly believe that to be true.

If you don't know pain you can't know joy. And too much of either can be a bad thing.

Thanks for the review. Be well.