Pain...

Pain is when you shower a thousand warm hugs and kisses
On an impassive body and heart.
Pain is hoping for a little warmth, but being left alone on the cold side of the bed.
Pain is an "I love you" with just silence as a reply.

Pain is also when half your soul gets lost 
In the form of a dear best friend
Trailing behind sleepless confessional nights and lost love. 

Pain is when your father dies and they tell you to be strong
And then leave in three days because it isn't their life it is yours.

Pain is when in the silence of your mind, you feel irretrievable Loss
Uncompromising Loss that you cant work your way out of

Pain.

"Acute pain has a protective function,
it motivates us to withdraw from damaging or potentially damaging situations, 
protects the injured body part while it heals, 
and avoids those situations in the future"

Pain means you are alive and healing.
It means your body, mind and soul are brave
And are rallying to deal with the reality of the trauma.

When you stop feeling pain and stop crying
Look blankly ahead, dead and empty
When you are completely lost and cant find yourself
That is when its really over.

So be glad for the sting of pain
It is the pain that lets you heal and not the avoidance of it. 

In the riot of colours that Life is, Pain is a deep mauve.
But beyond it is the blue of Freedom and Joy! 

My Pain is my teacher .. my Pain is who I am today.
So no regrets, no looking back

Just glad for the lessons learned and the strength earned
Wouldn't have it any other way!