Pain 2017

By John I. Blair

Pain is such a solitary thing
There’s no good way to tell of it.

Doctors have me rate my pain from 1 to 10;
And I do, but it’s a fiction.

My pain’s unique, not to be numbered,
And relates as much to moral state

As to inflamed
Or aggravated neurons.

©2017 John I. Blair, 7/26/2017