Shared Pain Poem by Jorge Arturo Valles Anguiano

I can't feel it exactly like you,
but I can feel the pain.

I feel all the emotional pain,
the physical pain that you suffer,
suffered,
and will suffer.

United by the heart,
by the soul...,
by the pain.

Probably can't feel any pain,
because of all I've already suffered...,
but I can feel your pain,
probably haven't passed for it,
but for something worst than that...

Wanting to keep that smile,
that person,
that personality.

I'd suffer for you...,
but I know you'd suffer,
because I'm suffering...,
there's no escape from pain.

Time will help me heal the wounds,
some deeper than others,
others the same,
others made because of your pain.