DAY 8...PAIN

You need to have a personal relationship with...

PAIN

You can only know the true joy of the mountain top when you have been to the valley low.

PAIN

My One true love
My unerring friend
Who never lies or pretends
to overstand
to know
to comprehend

but merely comes
and holds in steely bands
and crush and pinch
in ice cold hands
and gives me life
and purges and cleans
and releases me
to live again

My companion constant
who stabs the truth
in sweet soft flesh
and tears life apart 

to the root
and slices through
like a common brute
who beats to pulp
my foolish heart
and calls my attention
with poison darts

I know you are here
and I know you Care.