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 © | Year Posted 2015

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October 28, 2015 at 11:49 AM
Jerrell, pain is as constant as change in life, I enjoyed your pen..:), jill
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