His hands reached out and grabbed the strings on the carpet of his bedroom floor. Thoughts ran through his head until everything jumbled to one thought: pain.
He thought pain. He felt pain. He WAS pain.
It defined him; it invaded his bones, his mind, his life.
He was in physical, mental, and emotional pain, all of the time. But no one ever knew. No one noticed, asked, or questioned his "I'm okay"s
