Found this and revised the whole. Had more to say about it.
Pain Is Such A ‘Pain’
Besides discomfort, pain’s a pest.
A nuisance, bother – at its worst or best
A hurt that quashes thinking’s process:
On the list of stress’s’ highest nuisances.
Common idioms in use:
‘Pain the neck’ ‘pain in the ass’.
Vulgar yes, but graphic!
To be optimistic,
Usually, it takes a rest.
Not long, perhaps, but any pause
Is better than no pause at all,
The standstill most appreciated.
I myself do many things.
Focus on it, climb into it,
Plain ignore it, wearing yoga as a toga…
If it’s un-retreating still,
Un-vacating, un-evacuatable,
Make a vehicle that’s readable
And write!
Pen or pencil –
Anything that tells the ‘hell’
To level out or redirect its target.
Pain Is Such A Pain 4.14.2021/revised 10.4.2022 I Is always You Is We; Circling Round Experience; Arlene Nover Corwin
Arlene Corwin Poetry 