Pain Grew Me! Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Pain
grew me

out of this see
of hurt

blossoming into
an agony

beautiful flowers of brokenness

with double petals of
loneliness & aloneness

scattering throughout the years
that no longer knew me for who

I am

where under
a black sun

my brain burns
bursting into flames

& being
human

is a burden

that I can hardly
carry

bear no more
the unbearable

& wish to God
that Death

would pick me
for its bouquet

& pain would
at last leave me

alone for ever.
human