The Hard Explanation of Pain

For these few years past How I have sought to explain, Though I keep a positive face A useful even helpful life, a quiet voice, The deep bleeding cost The shadow that hovers near Even the sun's best days The soul's cells, how they Learn to cower and shrink For fear they will waken again A dragon that barely sleeps When wakens it roars And spreads its harsh breath Into the body both electrical And bone hammering aches The hope destroyer The fear feeder This deep unending pain And that indeed, one does Slowly change.