Life Is Pain – 29th November 2024

~ shaun tenzenmen

With my demons, I wrestle
While probing fingers point
Storm clouds gather undecided
In search of a swollen joint

Tickled tortures beyond pain
With needles under nails
Washed away on the tides
Of one-too-many fails

Without you, I would no longer exist

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8 thoughts on “Life Is Pain – 29th November 2024”

  1. Shaun, I read your poem again and again. It resonates with me. With so much pain that comes along with life, I have to wonder if you’re right. Without it, is it possible to continue? Maybe it is the fear of pain that makes us grow old? Maybe we should embrace it? Thank you for joining in on the prompt.

    Do you want to link up in Mr. Linky so others can read your offering?

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    1. Thanks! 🙏

      I tattoed LIFE IS PAIN, I WANT TO BE INSANE onto my arm when I was still in school. I liked the phrase and it was also a tattoo that an idol of mine at the time had.

      Friends thought I was stupid. Later, adults thought that I already was insane. But the more I read and learned over time this phrase and paraphrasing of it came up again and again in philosophy.

      At first I didn’t really understand my struggle and wanted to either fight back or hide from the world. As I have gotten older I’ve learned to embrace it and the reward that comes from it.

      Sometimes the demons still come and look for a fight with me but I’m better prepared now.

      The link is up now. I autopost when I’m sleeping and add to Mr Linky when I get chance in the morning. 👍

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      1. You’re welcome, Shaun. I just googled the phrase and the first thing that came up was American Psycho? I think if you can’t dance to the beat of your own drum, whose should you dance to. I was just watching Democracy Now! and listening to an interview with writer and Howard U professor, Ta-Nehisi Coates, where he talks about the carefully constructed social architecture that we are expected to inhabit and encourages people to recognize it and to build one’s own house. Thanks for letting me ramble on 🙂

        p.s. I won’t bug you anymore about linking up as you have your own system of doing it.

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        1. I’m not sure what American Psycho is but my inspiration was Henry Rollins/Black Flag and he has this phrase as a tattoo.

          Re: Ta-Nehisi Coates – I think I have used a quote of theirs here before 👍

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