. . . you enter uninvited
You disrespect boundaries
You invade sacred spaces
Many questions
Surround you Pain
Mysteries too
Pain you are a creator
Of feelings
I feel you
When I look at a photograph
Of a starving child
Her eyes have become
Too large for her face
Deep sadness leaks
Through the camera’s lens
Into my heart
Pain
You cross borders
With no visa
You enter the bodies
Of living beings
You linger
You vanish
You invade our minds
Pain
Our thoughts feel
Your presence
Are able to multiply
Your effects
Upon us
Until we learn
To take control
Of your intentions
For thoughts follow you
Pain
Down the corridors
Of time
As for me
I welcome you Pain
You teach me to understand
The pain of others
To know empathy compassion
To love this world
That lives with so much pain
I can deal with you
Pain
Take you for what you
Are
Lessons for my life
Not easy Pain
Soul work never
Is