Sustained Pain Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

One's pain to feel,
To introduce as their main objective...
As a perspective to subject,
Is often not expected.
Since pain to feel to share it,
Is difficult to do when personally felt.
So many love to entertain,
Others with their display of maintaining pain.
Heard at the convenience of listening ears.

And sustained pain only remains relevant,
In the mind of one who seeks from others...
An attention to get that would otherwise,
In different circumstances go unnoticed.
If one was not seeking to compete,
With a boasting of their agonies suffered.
As if pain to endure with a mending done to do,
Is something new no one else has to experienced.
And frequently condoning to do this alone.

'You have no idea,
How excruciating this pain I am feeling is.
Every moment of each day,
I am reminded of it.'

~Well...
Let's see if we can get the manager,
To let you use the P.A. system in the store.
I'm sure this event,
Others would regard historic as I do.~

'No.
That's okay.
I've already asked to do that a few weeks ago.
But I do appreciate your willingness to be aware.'