weariness of life

The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'

                                                                        Miriam Toews

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What do we do with pain?

It is so complex

When present, so woven into the fabric of who we are

Physical pain morphs into

Emotional and spiritual pain

It is no longer my back,

My neck

It is my heart, my would

Dazed by pain one wonders who they are

What they have become

And the path ahead

Seems hardly worth the effort

Pain comes out of trauma

Physical yes

But equally so

Emotional, spiritual, sexual

We carry all kinds of pain in our bodies

And we become pain

We grow weary of life

To answer pain involves so much more than

Pills, or surgery

Pain is alleviated by walking

Meditating

Breathing

Eating (right)

It is a physical matter to be sure

But all pain is from the brain

One way or another

We must think rightly

Or suffer

Pain is pain

It does not have to become suffering

They sit in front of me

Their stories different but the same

Ah!  Sacred One

Touch these bodies, hearts, souls, minds

Touch this pain