Pain Shared lyrics

Awakened every day, every night

By the impulses of pain

That creep throughout

The joints so countable

So very numerous

The ringing ears, tinnitus

Comes calling faithfully daily

It mirrors life's blood flow

The unquiet existence

A paradox accompanying deft

Trodding lightly on jagged feet

So as not awaken jolts

disoriented and imbalanced

Mitigated by a cane,

To deny gravity her claim

Legs cold and arms numb

Bleeding unseen, injuries too

Sometimes unknown

Unintentional, staining

Fevers of PTSD tossed in

Channels of stimuli shunted

A starved mind, an unruly body

They cannot survive well apart

Few dreams, all bad, in turmoil

No consistency, no tranquility

The sun shines, but not here

Everyday it's drab and grey

Each day a daily task to endure

Yet to strive to excell beyond

To find purpose in a pulse

Even in the garden of distraction

Lies omnipresent aching

The legacy of tortioned knees

The vertigo of rising up

The pangs of bent fingers

The stabbing, twisting knives

They strike deep and often

No release from its sadism

Nor freedom to just be

Welling tears of misery

They roll by unnoticed

Unseen and uncleansing

Quiet, calm and unheard

Except when breathing

Is a laboured reaction

Only the stirring clamours

Afforded in twinging movements

Break the singular silence

That trudging brings forth

In times of pain shared