Take a Vacation, Pain
Pain, you knock on my bones
Like old pipes in the winter,
You steal my breath,
Leaving me gasping
And grasping
For comfort that has fled
To a better body
A kinder skin
A younger head.
You remind me I am
Just human,
Not unique,
Just another being
Made lesser
And weaker
In your presence.
You trail my leg like a dog
Looking for home.
Where is your home, pain?
Where do you belong?
In the depths of hell?
In the caves of my memories?
We are old friends
If old friends are enemies.
I am your prisoner
Searching for the key
Ransacking my brain
For the answer,
The reason
That you are here
Your message is unknown
Unrealized
Unspoken
Except in words of misery
A language I should know well
But can’t comprehend.
Take a vacation, pain,
So I can, too.
Send a telegram from
Buenos Aires
Dance tango there
So I can, too,
Somewhere else.
Can we break up
Like teenage lovers?
You ride into the sunset
I, into the dawn.
We’ll keep the memories
And move on.
Take a vacation, pain,
So I can, too.
