You say that you have felt pain? <br />You have no idea what pain is. <br />Pain is hearing, “She doesn’t <br />like you anymore.” WHAT? <br />How can so much pain be caused by <br />someone who is so small, <br />so young, <br />so far? <br />Yet I tell you, I have felt pain, <br />pain at hearing your name <br />mentioned by some ignorant <br />person, someone who doesn’t <br />know what you have put me <br />through. Pain? Yes, that is pain. <br />Pain is knowing that you will <br />never be mine, though I once would have been <br />wholly yours. Yours, though <br />you may never know it. That <br />also is pain- not being able to <br />say what I want you to hear. <br />This and more have you put me <br />through. This, and also the <br />torture of hearing from your <br />own lips- lips that I have longed <br />for, lips that I have loved in <br />my own way- that you liked <br />another guy. No, I will not <br />call him a man, for he is not, <br />or else cannot be, for he loves <br />you. What? Now you wish to <br />leave him? And for me, again? <br />No, I am sorry, love, I cannot <br />and will not endure your <br />tortured love again. I have <br />felt the pain once, and I no <br />longer have any desire to feel <br />your pain again. Enjoy it, love. <br />Pain. Embrace it, rather than me, <br />for me you will not have, and now <br />pain is all you have.<br /><br />James Grengs<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pain/
