Pain as victimhood

Pain is a unique aspect

of our experience

left over from before

self-consciousness took over.

The reptilian brain probably knew

exactly what to do with pain.

But the self-conscious brain

imposed a subjectivity called fear,

as a consequence, predispositions

to react rather then respond.

A subtle shift of focus, source,

and frame, relenting into

an intervention of self-conscious

as positions of cause, blame

and victimhood that became

the distractions.

Now what is experienced as pain

only has street value.

The novelty of pain infers

a cheap temporal respect

and then accommodations

of exterior drugs

to alter the experience.

All the interior rituals saved

from before self-consciousness

are diminished or suppressed.

Fear produces apprehensions

in response

and minimal involuntary shifts

from within.

The living-dying cycle of life

is truncated

into celebrated frames

of resistance.

Medical intervention applauds

the cause,

favoring life over death

as if they were enemies,

yet optimal living should include

optimal dying.

We have lost or compressed

most of the cycle’s subtlety

for the vexing embrace of death

as a conundrum.

This procession

of the living/dying cycle

now defies audience

yet everyone will have

an unrelenting

first person account.

Pain will ultimately be

either a mentor or a crier.

Pain will either be resisted

or move you along.

Why kill the messenger

before the message

is fully delivered?

We have acquiesced

to a consciousness

of acquiring experiential comfort

but in the process

we are spiritually exiled

to a stasis of being.

Thus pain, as the subterfuge,

has created culture

and been reinforced

into a mentality.

What we now call pain

is a delivery system

for justification

of positional reality,

a preoccupation as a limiter

for participation in the present.

Pain mostly precludes presence

other than victimhood.