Pain, My Friend, Stay A While

• Jarin Bahar, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2009

What do you do when
You have no-one
No-one, who knows your pain?
Pain.
Pain can tear you apart
and devour you
Hungrily.
It is gnashing at your insides
Ripping apart your every sense of
Living
Wanting
Being-
Taking full control?

You fear that you might never
Emerge
Resurface
Recover
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 understands the full destruction of...
His ruling.
The only friend who comprehends exactly how much you have
Crumbled
And how much is
Left to crumble...
The only friend who knows
the 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...