This Jagged Ragged Pain
"Her pain was so jagged. You couldn't touch her, without it slicing through you too. I wanted to fold myself around her and absorb the rest of the blows life would deliver."
~ Tarryn Fisher
"My faith didn't remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn't diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it."
~ Robert Rogers
Tears flow down my cheeks
like small rivulets
Pain is like a volcano erupting within me
It burns down all defences
I sob like a little child
Agonizing spasms cut through me
like a jagged knife sharpened on both sides
I cry out loud
Is there no relief?
Torment churns my being
like a grinder mixing it all or a mixer grinding me
I toss and turn
restless and lachrymose
Anguish pricks my insides
It's like walking barefoot on jagged rocks
My physical pain is just a minuscule fragment
compared to my Saviour's agony on the Cross
He knows and understands my heart’s deepest aches
And so, I remind myself of that
and find my comfort in Him.
20th March 2022
Copyright © Joanna Daniel | Year Posted 2022
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