1. Chronic Pain
Stupid, really,
to say it, given the pain
must be and is …
Yet I feel compelled to cry
one more time: Unbearable!
2. Killers
Once again pain
has conquered my pain-killers.
So many down!
I send reinforcements, hardly
caring if they kill … pain or me.
3. Giving Comfort
In lovingkindness
my friend calls to ask after
the state of my pain.
And to comfort him I say,
“It’s not quite so bad today.”
4. Ambitions
Waking, I wonder
when the day will be over.
Oh, living with pain
has reduced my ambitions
to just … living without pain.