Pain
Is a lot Like the ocean
It’s scary and frightening
Confusing and unpredictable for those inexperienced
Mighty and vast, it can sometimes feel never ending
Infinite
When will I reach the rocky bottoms?
It comes and goes in waves
Sometimes the waves are small
U barely notice them licking your toes as you walk your path
One foot still stepping in front of the other
The waves that lick you, make no difference because
On you carry forward anyway
but sometimes the waves are fierce
They catch u by surprise and knock you off your feet
It can take your breath away
Pain is
transformative
It can create new landscapes in the body
New pathways in the brain
Pain can move mountains
A lot like the ocean
Pain can move the tectonic plates that are your muscles
Your bones
Ligaments and tendons
To make way for new life to emerge
Pain teaches lessons
Pain brings wisdom
It’s reflective in nature
A lot like the ocean
It invites you to get curious about this new sensation
You ask why?
You ask how?
You ask where?
Curious.
Pain speaks messages from the little universe inside of you
Pain is a lot like the ocean
Pain is to be respected
Pain is to be heeded
Pain will destroy old patterns
Obliterate useless pathways
Best not to try and fight or resist it
because it wants to teach you malleability
Break away from rigidity
Flow
Like the ocean
Pain can fortify you
Tone your listening skills
Teaches you the gift of presence
If you can survive it
If you can surrender
If you can accept it
Pain can transform you, expand you like nothing else in this world
Except when you resist it
Pain can make you feel small, tight, tense, afraid
It will pulverize you
If you let it.
a lot like the ocean
Imagine floating in its vastness
You suddenly feel small
Like nothing matters at all
Imagine feeling nothing but pain for so long
Eventually nothing matters at all
Pain has a purpose
And so does the ocean
Pain is inevitable in order to grow
The ocean must be crossed
In order for worlds to expand and flow
Pain is a lot like
The ocean
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Ashley Antunes
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Deep sentiments well spoken! Ocean must be crossed but is very deep!