I hurt

Pain like sickness
From belly to chest
No will to help
No cheer

Self absorbed in world of hurt
Is this what hell is like?
Separation from God
Where are my coping ways now?

Let me take this pain
Let me use it to forge
A new being
A wiser self that is now invisible

Good is the enemy of best?
Surely there is only good
A sliding scale of good
No bad best or worst

Where are my children?
Where is my wife
Who did she marry?
Who stole my youth?

My parents alive
Though split like me
One cat dead, one alive
Split as if I too am half dead

Who are we here?
What is this body?
These busy cells
This conscious conscience

What is this religion?
Consumer?
We judge by looks
Fair Jesus

To develop our character is our duty
But how
The method
Is that not important?

No one does wrong knowingly
Let that guide our bitterness
Our resentment
My foul mood

It is never too late
Can you form a thought?
Then you can reconcile
Reconcile one step by step