A Painful Power

A Painful Power

Posted by Erin Mansfield

Few would thank their faults for their success
Their pain is seen as a miserable pest
It decides to visit whenever it likes
Only popping in for a moment
Or attempting to stay for a lifetime
It can vary from a slightly annoying guest
To something that puts one to the test
At which point there is little left to do
One will medicate the pain away
In any way one finds they can
Sometimes relief is the sweetest candy
Sometimes there is merely numbness
Yet where relief can not be found
And the pain can not then fade
A certain, powerful focus can arise
While one moves onward anyway
When the task is too important to ignore
I do not know why we carry such weight
Why our lives aren't perfectly sweet
Yet there is that calm within the storm
Something within that's so much more
If we can remember ourselves within the pain
We have less to lose and more to gain