Pain You Won'T Own Poem by Patti Masterman

Pain you won't own,
Owns you, in the end;
The dark water comes
And you forgot how to swim.
Friends you don't owe
Try to lift you toward light-
But the moon stays the solitary
Sun, of the night.

Debts you won't pay
Try to sell you, each day;
Your heart on your face
Though you'd die, before saying..
The hooks in your soul
Keep pulling you under-
And there's lightning in eyes
But a strange, silent thunder.

The vault will be silent
The grass will be still
When they put you away
For forever, to seal
The pain you were dealt,
And the debts left unpaid;
They will never be spoken-
For it’s now much too late.