How do you deal with pain?

When it consumes you like the heat of a summers’ day

When all your life you’ve hidden it away

Then someone comes along and says it doesn’t have to be that way

Says be yourself you are a flower

You let go, then in a blink of an eye your world turns sour

How do you deal with pain?

When you lye in a sea of disparity

Overtaken with thoughts of uncertainty

How do you deal with pain?

When all the acts and words you thought to be true

Turn out to be lies simply fed to you

How do you deal with pain?

When it comes to pass

That preceding days

Were filled with misguided notions

Showered with false emotions

How do you deal with pain?

When all you thought was real in your life

Ends up in strife

How do you deal with pain?

If what you feel devours you spirit

If everyday you constantly feel it

How do you deal with pain?

When expectations of the one you love

Seemed not so far out of reach

When foreseen acts of the one you love

Appeared as though they would not end up breach

How do you deal with pain?

Like spoiling a child when you spare the rod

The trust and respect once had

Turns out to be a façade

How do you deal with pain?

How do you deal with pain

When you are dismembered of your crown

And your world gets turned up-side down

When on a pedestal, you once stood

And now you find yourself hiding under a hood

How do you deal with pain

How do you deal with pain?

By: Jana Adams

October, 2006