Something About Pain

Pain is one way of knowing you are

still alive. An old friend of my reminded

me of that one time. There are those who

will claim of a person who has recently

died, at least they are no longer in pain.

I say, having known pain in life, especially

in my old age, the good thing about pain is

when you experience relief from it. The

dead are unfortunate in that regard for they

feel nothing, neither the revulsion of pain

nor the beautiful relief from it. Death, my

friends, is the ultimate and everlasting

void of being. And I ask, where could the

pleasurabilty of that be? Feeling is the lifetime

key to all possibilities, pain and the respite

from it, I say. Give me pain over death any day.

For when death intervenes, the numbness of

nothingness shall last an eternity.

Chris Hanch 12-7-19