“Happy is the man who avoids hardship, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance?”- Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Welcome O Pain! I have no choice but to embrace you!
As slow as the rising sun,
Creeping underneath my bed sheets,
It has come to awaken.
My eyelids open to the crack of light.
My mind recollects the tragic reality.
And I weep.
I weep and embrace this pain,
This incessant friend, this…
Reality I cannot run from!
In open arms I hug and squeeze this pain.
I cry into its fierce, unyielding body.
I accept it for it has been willed to me.
I cry at gems I have seen and lost.
At good memories that have died.
At transience.
I long for perfection, I had hoped…
That this gem would finally…
Be mine!
But no, they keep coming and going.
Parting like the autumn leaves from its tree.
And now I have cried up a sea.
Why do you tease me so?
Why do you rip my heart out,
And laugh in my face?
Why do you present to me?
What I can never have…
The Impossible.
I hold onto pain so tightly
For it is my only companion
Tonight.
And like a good parent,
Pain will slowly let loose…
Its reprimanding grip.
