It's hard to explain how pain alters you
and changes the way you relate.

in agony or in ecstasy it pins me to the floor
and the wait for relief if it comes to numb me
is even harder.

It could be voodoo
and you know what that means?
it means I'm being punctured by
needles, accented by screams,
lost in the chasms of the
tormented screams or
it could be
acupuncture.

either way
it's still hard to explain
and when the pain becomes
unbearable,
when the day becomes unwearable
I
go naked into the night.