When I am in pain, just let me be

I don’t need your pity or outrage or sympathy

I only need Presence

Just give me your eyes

You lived out your story, now this one’s for me

 

Let me be wrenched

Let me feel it myself

Let me pass through it fully

Or, rather, let it pass through me

I earned it wholeheartedly, now let it consume me

 

Too many people have tried to explain it

They give it a name

They give antecedents

But pain has been pure since the beginning

It’s the thing that melts wings and it’s setting you free

 

While you’re digging for answers

A comfort, a remedy

The pain has a message, a function, a strategy

Don’t wish it away

It’s your portal to ecstasy

 

When I am in pain, just let me be

But don’t leave me

I wish you would know me

But just as I am

Not the way you need me to be