What is pain? To abstain or to retain. A feeling to let out, or to restrain. A fruit, or a nuisance — a disdain. Nurturer of strength, or destroyer of sanity. Driver, or the conductor of vanity. The propeller of wounds and scars. The beginning, or the end, of my emotional or my physical wrath. What is pain? A metaphysical being who lives in my reality; who dwells in my dreams.