Pain

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly." You know the pain that punches you in the gut, stucks the air right out of you. The kind of pain that haunts you, stalks you, and clinges onto you. The kind of pain that settles in you soul and makes a home. Pain like that just doesn't go away. It is a flood emotion that over comes your entire being. You find yourself wishing and hoping the waves of that pain will just slow enough for you to come up and catch your breathe. You wonder just how long you will be able to hold on. You almost give up all hope that life will from now on be this. But one day you wake up and realize the pain wasn't as strong as it once was. With each breath each moment the intense strong pain weakens. Til one day it has almost vanished from your soul. It finally decided it wasn't in fact its home. Yet pain like that well it never really leaves us. It leaves behind things that reminds us that it was once there. Moments when we remember and reflect and in some ways still can feel that very pain. Because pain like that well it leaves behind scars. Scars that become a part of who you are. We have a choice whether to learn something positive from those scars or to let history repeat itself. The choice is up to you. Pain...pain can be a pain in the *ss.