11-10-2013, 06:34 PM
By Graystar
Sunday, November 10. 2013
Accompany
Pain, the tour guide,
a friendly foe who calls
"Come! Walk with me
along the curving landscape
of a body aged by heat."
Stiff arthritic toes curl
in protest hotly gasping.
Pain dances as if barefoot
and carefree. Imagine!
Fickle friend indeed.
Head-fever ache of blinding pain
hangs on weeping for relief.
Fried with sun-fury calves
restlessly beg
"Set us free! Hell drags us about!"
Pain smiles and eases
her warm clinging fingers,
bound by oath to answer
glory-damned screams,
temptress of hope that she is.
Sunday, November 10. 2013
Accompany
Pain, the tour guide,
a friendly foe who calls
"Come! Walk with me
along the curving landscape
of a body aged by heat."
Stiff arthritic toes curl
in protest hotly gasping.
Pain dances as if barefoot
and carefree. Imagine!
Fickle friend indeed.
Head-fever ache of blinding pain
hangs on weeping for relief.
Fried with sun-fury calves
restlessly beg
"Set us free! Hell drags us about!"
Pain smiles and eases
her warm clinging fingers,
bound by oath to answer
glory-damned screams,
temptress of hope that she is.