Pain, My Friend, Stay A While

• Jarin Bahar, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2009

What do you do when
You have no-one
When no-one, no longer knows your pain?
Pain.
Pain can tear you apart and devour you
Hungrily.
That feeling when-
It is gnashing at your insides too hard-
Ripping apart your every sense of
Living
Wanting
Being-
And takes full control?
When you fear that you might never
Emerge
Resurface
Recover
Despite being able to before...
This time it seems-
Like the last time
And it hurts to know that
This time
You’re only friend may be Pain himself
You are only known by him
When no-one else is there
He is willing to spend his time with you
When no-one else can,
He can understand the full destruction of...
His ruling.
A ghastly friend...
Yet the only friend who comprehends exactly how much you have
Crumbled
And exactly how much is
Left to crumble...
The only friend who knows how you feel-
For he causes those feelings in you...
The feeling.
The feeling so extreme and unbearable-
Of wanting to
Scream
Cry
Kick out
Yet the energy you once had to do those things-
Is his now...