What is pain?
When you cut your finger?
When you bang your toe?
Is that pain?
Pain.
Is it when you feel your insides will explode?
When there are so many thoughts scrambled
in your brain you can’t remember your
name
When you wake up drenched in sweat
from you don’t know what.
When you are cut you get stitches.
When you are bruised you get sympathy.
When you are scraped you get a bandage.
When you are screaming from inside pain
you get told to be quiet.
When you talk of inside pain you get
“don’t live in the past.”
When you hurt yourself to let out inner
pain you are called crazy, insane.
When you do violate unspeakable things
to your body you get shame.
Pain – Please See.
Please – Help.
Karen
Taken from The Cutting Edge archives