Imagine if we Didn't Feel Pain

Imagine if we felt no pain

No stinging thorn to dock us 

To the margins of our term

Or cuspate pin to hold us 

Down upon this sober ground

We’d be nothing more than glitter

Space dust drifting through time

Imagine if we didn’t suffer

The scalding burns of defeat

Nor the cauterizing irons of failure

Or numb blot shame which follows

Our hearts would tick only to exist 

As frigid bodies, cold as Neptune

Obscure as its darkest spots

Imagine if we bore no wounds

Our shells unmarked by trials

Without relief on which our loved 

Ones grip and feel secure

Too slippery for bonds to form

Remote and unscarred as Europa

Merely orbiting among latent friends

Imagine if we didn’t weaken

Under the grind of being

Never floundering or failing

Lofty in our own perfection

Riding our high horses to where

The air is thin and the sun so bright

We are blinded, baking in our own glory

Imagine if we felt no grief 

No closing walls of despair

Which crush us down, down flat

And black as shadows of ourselves

We couldn’t divide the darkness

Comfortable in a our black hole

And we’d never see the light