GREATER THAN THE LAST

Greater Than The Last 

     

Pain.......

Intangible but nonetheless...

Real

Like nothing else in this life

It blots out the joy like a cloud

The sky

Darkens on a sweet summer morning

Thick and full and stifling

Like heat from a thousand ovens

And cold like the loss of a coat

In the snow.

Pain.........

Enveloping, grasping, tightening

Smothering

Death

That does not die

But only

Hurts

And goes on and on without mercy

Until the next heartbreak

Comes

When you are not looking

And when you have

Un-clenched your hands and sighed

In relief.

It's then........

That the devil in the corner

Of your eye stands front and center

Punches you senseless

And pulls the barely beating heart

From your breast

And steps on it......

And every pain that comes

In this life...............

Is greater than the last.

©by Voo Shining Stone

December 9, 2005

7:30 p.m.