Imagine if we Didn't Feel Pain

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By Jane Hyphen

Tue, 10 Mar 2020
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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

 

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Comments

Submitted by onemorething on

I think this is wonderful. :)

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Thank you onemorething. I was thinking about  all the negative stuff and then the alternative, what is the alternative? A perfect world with nothing to grip on to. 

 

Submitted by celticman on

I like this very much. If we didn't feel any pain, or emotion and thought ourselves always right and never wrong, then we'd be Donald Trump. 

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Ha ha. Yes and I wonder about the Blairs too and many many others, all in positions of power and doing very well for themselves.  If we scanned their brains we would see something different I'm sure.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Lack of physical pain sensation is so dangerous – as seen in the injuries that occurred because of leprosy.

You seem to be highlighting the robot-likeness of life without emotions and social empathies, and the chastening and moulding effect of hardships and awareness of our failings.

It brought to my mind the reason God removed his 'perfection of blessing' when Adam and Eve sinned, rebelled – complacency in a perfect world would not encourage mankind to seek forgiveness and to be made so they could enjoy once more a perfect world when it is made so (without pride!).

Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Thanks for your comment Rhiannon.  A lack of emotional empathy is perhaps as dangerous as the absence of physical pain.