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Pain (sestina)

from Fragile Spark by Haven Jean

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Pain - Sestina

Speaking of pain, it feels everlasting
Like a sad God sitting on a mountain
Grating tendrils, snaking through the body
At every juncture stabbing and squeezing
Until every movement brings new protest
And all solutions are temporary

Sleep is elusive and temporary
Longing for silent rest, everlasting
surfacing with every screaming protest
Blearily ascending that damn mountain
Joints and nerves tender from muscles squeezing
The horrifying truth, this is my body.

And yet, the damage down to this body
Is ignorant, and not temporary
Like grasping a delicate hand, squeezing,
Unaware trauma is everlasting
Preventing the scaling of the mountain
Unheeding of this too feeble protest

What use is a bloody protest
It makes no difference to mind or body.
Screams aren’t audible stop the mountain
Everyone knows pain is temporary
Chiding insistence, ‘it’s everlasting’
It’s just hysteria, nothing’s squeezing

I told you, it’s invisible squeezing
Why does no one listen to my protest
Interminable and everlasting
Dismissal - I know my fucking body
It’s your opinion that’s temporary
Deny all you want, there’s still a mountain

The view from the summit, up the mountain
Shows the reality, time is squeezing
Sighting of victory! Temporary
Sinking down again, too tired for protest.
Wearily heave this burdensome body
To then dream of a rest everlasting

Down this so-called temporary ephemeral mountain
It remains everlasting, constricting, stabbing and squeezing.
With barely a protest, the prickling chill paralyses the body.

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from Fragile Spark, released February 28, 2022

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