A World Of Hurt

MAESTROVIEJO

Pain implies a non-God,
a specific creation of ouch.
Reading Hardy to cheer up.
Toothache as revelation.
Maggots in a festering wound.
The moans of child birth.
The broken hip of age.
The razor’s edge of being
keeping us wide awake by
fiercely known suffering,
cunning irregularity,
the sharp wounded stabs
of feeling and seeing.