The Pain Of Survival

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The Pain of Survival

There is pain in survival – in waking up.

It is not painless like all assume.

Survive and you will hurt afterwards;

it may be a day, a night, a lifetime -

forever. Survivors have a

particular pain:

Specific and sometimes horrific.

It goes with saying, survival is painful.

It is mending and bending out the

pain like a piece of crooked metal that

accidently got caught in the vice of life

or love or the hate of another. There

is no vice like hate. It warps us

beyond ourselves until we don’t want

to be a shape of any kind. Surviving

is pain of another kind, it mutates

over time into a friend who could also

be a fiend. There is no telling which

one. Waking up is breathing,

only the first step, the beginning.

  - By Michael Stolt

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