Pain

One can't live without it in their lives, but why

It's never a pleasant thing to experience

It's one of the things that brings us to cry

Or leaves us feeling furious

Maddening it is to have to suffer the feelings of pain

Suffering such things as loss and suffering again and again

It drives us to feel like we're going insane

And beliefs that we can't do anything to win

Without it, we would not know better things

For everything would always seem the same

From the moment that friendly call comes, when the phone rings

To that sensation when you get lucky and win the game

Our lives were meant to deal with pain and sorrow

Without it all we would not know

The joys that come from a better tomorrow

Without pain, we'd not know what directions not to go

Our hearts would be empty and soulless things inside of us

Only beating to keep us going

There would be no joys or experiences that give us that rush

We'd simply go through life, good things around us, but never knowing

Pain drives us to want to do better the next time around

It tells us what works and what we're doomed to fail

It gives us a story that's worthy of being found

A life that makes a more relatable tale

It tells us that we loved and what mattered to us most

Without pain, things come to an end, but we know not what it means

It brings us visits from yesterday's ghost

And allows us to smile when traveling through time's special scenes

Pain comes, and pain goes by

How we carry it with us is what matters in the end

We can let it beat us to our knees and make us sigh

Or show it that we will never bend

But most of all, it is a building block

It builds us into our true selves when done

A journey that takes all the time seen on the clock

One that if we're lucky, we may one day look back and know we had fun

Ahhh, pain