what do you know about pain

What do you know about pain?

Raised to nurture but not nurtured

Ridiculed for being different

Violated

Just because he had a selfish need to fulfil

What do you know about pain?

He promised

And never followed through

I loved him, and swallowed love

Apparently the feeling was mutual

But somehow I never felt appreciated

What do you know about pain?

I’ve had my hair pulled since age three

All in the name of beauty

Plucked, waxed, injected and rejected

All to belong and to be accepted

What do you know about pain?

Have you been on the receiving end of a slap?

Or wondered what he was thinking

Or better yet where he is, where he was and where he is going

And Oh Lord the wait for that ring

What do you know about pain?

Listened to mommy and remained pure

Just to be spoiled by one experience

And he left me with the consequences

Stitches, labor, epidural, breast feeding and weight

Then the universe sent a disease for comic relief

What do you know about pain?

No you don’t understand

You will never get it

And I never wish any of it on you

Even if you are the cause of it all

What do you know about pain?

Budgie