Pain

I don’t like to focus on pain, wanting to remain positive-- believing “rising tides lift, etc….” but sometimes pain will not listen to the host, receptors closed to meditation and prayer; an open question to me as to whether we propagate unconsciously, or flagrant defile by independent demons-- though I think even the latter, somehow do not rule over the gods of our own being; the worse pains those we seem to only track, not a crumb leading to their source a witch at the door not even sweets before the oven-- And when incantations fail, cannot separate body from soul, rejecting ferments for the suicide of pharmacology somehow makes guiltless gold the letters on our stones….