I hope my pained experiences,
Make you cackle, howl, hysterical from laughter.
I hope my pained experiences,
Make you frustrated, irate, done with my stubbornness.
I hope my pained experiences,
Bring you closure, completion, bliss in being a contributor.
I hope my pained experiences,
Bring you sadness, grief, pity for another suffering soul.
I hope my pained experiences,
Show you fear, cowardice, petrification from sheer terror.
I hope my pained experiences,
Make you recoil, grimace, cringe at such openness.
Because I lived through these moments,
and I've experienced every one of those emotions.
I suffer the scorn,
From others and from myself.
Who gives us the right,
to judge our pain?
For, why cannot pain,
Be just pain,
And not a scale from 1-10?
Some people have it better.
Some people have it worse.
We all matter, do we not?
Take your pain off the scale.
Everybody knows it will never weigh the same as another.
But that will never mean,
that it doesn't matter as much as the one that weighs more.
Or so, I'm still trying to convince myself...
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PoetryThere's no really way of me saying of what's going to be in here, because when I write; I'm very unpredictable. But I can ensure you that I'll write with deep concepts in mind. Rue can write in here if they like, this book ISN'T just for me. (I wan...
