Pain

Time, time without reprieve or consolation

Pushes against my chest 

Reenforcing the pain

That confines my path,

Offering a wealth of rationalizations.

A wall initially appearing impervious,

Proves a pitiful and short lived substitute

For a recognition that both sufferings;

An unhealthy heart and a refusal

To test my talents, serve to insulate.

Nor do I not recognize the value of the dance.

I am not the seminal thinker

Who first voiced, from a safe distance,

Support for those tentative barriers

That give respite, at a price.

Let me fill the day with the kindness of friends,

The love of those I call family,

And the wonders that give wing to hope.

Can I not feel, once more the joy 

Of a child’s brief escape in its dash 

To the oceans edge, 

Or the warmth of the fawn who choses to lie with the lion?

Knowing night will return, 

And eclipse todays sunshine,

Does not void this afternoon's laughter.