If chronic pain could speak
(A lone voice whispers)
Will you please courageously save all your sad tears
To welcome me as your majesty when I decide to come your way
Do you still want me to hurt you
When I call to play
Can your tired eyes feel me slowly coming with my marching band
While they line up behind me grinning and drumming
As we slowly creep up your spine and venture like Alexander the Great
Into the deeper recesses of your mind
To gleefully open up all the blackest of doors to the darkest of sleepless nights
It's never too late
Faith never said you had to walk to me bravely
Like a hopeless victim all alone
Over all those green hills before you start eating all those deliciously medicated pills
With no one to help as you fight
Are you strong enough to break through the zone to release all those painful secrets
Or will you choose to live a life based on a false alarm
One that rings whenever you feel my soft touch heralding weakness
My advice to you
Pray for hope to help you cope
Surround yourself with a great circle of family and friends
For I'm one of the hardest to love
But still, I'll test you
That I can guarantee
For I push all known mortal hidden envelopes
As I try to keep you in the corner
Struggling on the ropes
Whenever I call by and make you try a drop of me
Just you wait
I'll soon call to visit
You'll see
Copyright John Duffy
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