Themes of Pain

themes of pain

there is the pain

corporeal,

our aches,

our pains

significant.

some block the pain,

ignore

the theme,

the pattern

of pains,

what does it mean?

when i cannot,

block the pain out,

and I read how others

feel,

i am reminded

that my theme

includes

empathy & sympathy,

listening

to

explain,

that it means when

i have a pain there,

or there,

another does too,

or much worse,

and yet,

i can never quite explain,

through prose, photos or

broken poetry,

that

someone else

could

say it does not hurt,

and yet another

has no pain.