Pain
Why can't pain
Remain
Just pain?
Why must it translate
Into debate
with Fate?
What can it gain
By exposure?
Closure?
Justification
In exculpation?
We often learn too late
That love and hate
Act and react
As fact--
That explanation
May just be
A drop of toxic chemistry--
A profanation.
Copyright © Jerrell Jones | Year Posted 2015
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