Poetry: The pain of pain without end
@innertalks (21130)
Australia
September 7, 2020 12:38am CST
The pain of forced living,
brought me to despair.
The coarseness of life's course,
ensnared me in its elsewhere.
Understanding brought me,
nothing but more understanding.
The ability to overcome the force,
is recursively cursed, as endorsed.
Nothing changes in my life of pain.
Pain remains part of my life's refrain.
My brain gives me no rest as it pests,
at best, I am blessed with my stress.
Understanding on its own never helps.
Nothing can help, but creativeness.
To create is to be alive in creation.
Another poem is born from my pain.
Love sits idle in you, until you sit in it.
Peace never finds you, until it does fit.
The ending is the same as the beginning,
only if the ending is the ending of the end.
We sit within the now of the present,
idling away all the wood, in our tree.
We do not yet see the real inner core,
as we whittle it away evermore, evermore.
To sculpture a life carved to perfection,
requires more than just painful cutting away.
It also requires finely honed skills of the art,
of turning our pain, into works of the heart.
Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com
Can we carve love into the wood of our tree?
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
Ha, ha, yes, there has to be at least some compensation for a life of such deep pain.
Here is a great quote, from the spiritual master, Osho, which agrees with my idea about creativity, here in my poem.
"The more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when each moment of your life is filled with creativity, you live in God." - Osho
@Janet357 (75656)
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7 Sep 20
@innertalks very nice message, something to ponder for today.
I remember what the bible says, that sometimes what we fear most, does not happen.
There was a time in my life I was so stressed that the only thing I had was a comfy home to live in and food to eat.
But the rest,.I had none. Years later, I got all of them.
Jusy like what the bible says, there is a time for sadness and happiness, for everything...
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
@Janet357 The Bible also says that perfect love drives out all fear, and I wonder if it drives out all pain too?
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love."
1 John, chapter 4, verse 18.
How does fear relate to pain?
Pain is not fear, but fear can be pain.
Pain is often a warning that we are resisting love, or life, in some ways, and fear is more that we fear life, or love.
Perfect love always casts out fear, but it, perfect love, often leaves some pain in us, as a reminder that God lives in us, stretching his love in us to be even greater for him, in us, than before.
Such stretching sometimes causes us pain.
@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
Thanks. That means that you really valued my poem, thanks again.
@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
@judithml l guess most situations come to an end, sooner or later, but sometimes they are then replaced with other painful ones instead.
We need a way to handle painful situations better, more generally.
If we cannot do this, the pain will continue without end.
@judithml (398)
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7 Sep 20
@innertalks oh whatever it is, i hope something or someone be able to ease those pains, and i wish you take it a little lightly i mean whatever's painful that wont end
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@DocAndersen (54407)
• United States
7 Sep 20
and what does understanding bring? muffins of course.
Beautiful poem, the last line drives a great vision. The works of the heart. Do we stumble, do we fall only to rise again int he works of the heart?
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
And what might we do with the muffins?
We also need extra understanding to know how to sell them optimally, or how to eat them, without greed being attached to the eating, as well.
Understanding brings more understanding, more steps of refinement ( read greater deepening levels of understanding) are added to previous understanding.
Yes, works of the heart, are truly just that, works of the heart. Nothing else can compare with them!
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
8 Sep 20
@DocAndersen Thanks, Scott. I appreciate your appreciation!
@DocAndersen (54407)
• United States
8 Sep 20
@innertalks i love that - it fits perfectly and the poem is amazing!
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@Nakitakona (56302)
• Philippines
7 Sep 20
I have noticed in your poem style is contrast and parallelism.
You write in writing but it's unwritten. If no one writes who like to write. Thus writing needs to be written for it's in writing that thoughts are to be written.
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
Yes, I do try to repeat words, or themes, for greater emphasis.
Understanding brought me,
nothing but more understanding.
I could have put this as:
Understanding brought me,
nothing but more misunderstanding.
but I left it as it was, because it carries a deeper subtlety of meaning to it.
Sometimes, when we understand, then spend a lot of time trying to understand better, we can get caught up in the understanding need/loop, just understanding more and more theoretically, but never putting any of it to real use.
When we notice this in ourselves, we realise we have great understanding, but it still never gets us anywhere, practically, in our lives.
This too is a very painful position to be in too.
We perfect our piano playing, for example, but just in our heads, we never play it to anyone else.
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
@Nakitakona Ha, ha. You are catching my parallelism.
Yes, I agree argumentation continues the argumentation, if we argue in an argumentative way.
Yes, if we argue without arguing, we don't have to argue.
We more just take our positions, and have a fencing match instead, or a healthy debate, in the philosopher's language.
@Nakitakona (56302)
• Philippines
7 Sep 20
@innertalks Well I don't have to argue with you. For it is arguing that we don't argue or else our arguements are full of argumentation.
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
Yes, thanks, I agree that pain can teach us, and give us new ways to learn, whereas before we were not learning, so pain can open up new windows into our seeing love through.
If we just polish our learning and understanding too much though without doing anything else, this of itself can be painful too, as it is with me, and this is where creativity is an outlet for our learning, and understanding, making it more real, when it's creatively written in print.
@kanuck1 (4401)
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8 Sep 20
@innertalks When I read it, I actually read it again but sang it and it was a good tune but since I didn't record it right away, it is now lost.
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
8 Sep 20
@kanuck1 It does seem to have a beat, and a rhythm to it.
You must have a talent, if you could spontaneously do that too.
@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
Yes, thanks, maybe, a songwriter might read this, and come forwards...lol...
And yet, we all need to learn to sing our own songs too.....
@Shiva49 (26245)
• Singapore
7 Sep 20
That is profound Steve.
Great works of art have arisen from a painful heart, and the urge to share it with others.
We need the pain to introspect and dig deeper rather than live superficially.
Life is a relentless pursuit of the truth and that requires intense personal experience, inquiry, and reflection.
We need to analyze our pain and find a way out of it, to find the meaning of life itself and for self advancement spiritually - siva
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
Thanks, siva.
As you know siva, most of my pain comes from my spiritual struggles.
I continuously wrestle against God, and he is a formidable opponent, but at the same time, he is no real opponent either; he is my wrestling coach too.
Pain can be a key to open some locked doors in us at times.
Yes, it's all just about our taking steps upwards on our spiritual paths.
It can be painful, if we try to stretch ourselves too quickly to try to take two steps in one giant step, rather than the smaller steps that God has prepared for us to take in his plan for us.
We should be contented with God's plans for our lives. He always knows best.
I perhaps show a certain arrogance, at times, by my trying to fly to the top of his mountain now, rather than my getting there the hard way, one small step at a time.
@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
8 Sep 20
@Shiva49 Ha, ha. I like to experience all types of attitudes.
I will adopt or adapt to the defeatist attitude at times too, but I do not like to stay there for too long.
I do not really believe in "God", per se, but I do realise that there is probably more out there than which meets the eye, so I call that God, for now.
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@Shiva49 (26245)
• Singapore
8 Sep 20
@innertalks I tend to be agnostic when it comes to understanding our creator.
We are at the lower end of the pecking order still and miles to go to understand the overall scheme of things. I like to let go and if I am given some gleanings, then that goes with responsibility too. Otherwise, let me just be another member of my species but still with an urge to think and try to understand.
The real adventure lies in ascending the mountain and that could be what is destined for us for the time being.
However, let us keep trying rather than have a defeatist attitude - siva
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@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
7 Sep 20
Wow amazing and painfully, emotional poem. Thanks got sharing us.
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
Thanks. I was feeling the pain, as I wrote it, and I did feel better afterwards too.
@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
7 Sep 20
@innertalks that's cool. Enjoy your day
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@Doubleyou44 (94)
• Lagos, Nigeria
7 Sep 20
'finely honed skills of art' this gets me at last.
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@innertalks (21130)
• Australia
7 Sep 20
Thanks. I am glad that line stood out to you. We all see different importances for each other in a poem.
