Pain (an acrostic poem)

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Punishing waves of agony crash along your nerves

And as they recede they leave riptides of aches behind

It makes it difficult to breathe, to think

Now you wonder if you can tough it out, or if this time it will break you

Drop (an acrostic poem)

Doesn’t know or care much where her tears may fall

Reaching that point where the pain becomes a baseline, a background

It grays out the world into a monochromatic morass

Punishing her one drop at a time