Pain

Pain???
By John A. Wilson


Pain? Don't talk to me about pain
You don't know what pain is.
Pain is holding your best friend's head in your lap
As his blood flows out and slowly stops.
Pain is just waving at a friend rather than take the time
To speak to him and pass a few minutes of the day
And find out the next day that your friend is dead.
Pain is watching a friend's body waste away
While cancer takes it's deadly toll.
Pain is sitting and trying to decide
Whether that bottle of pills or that shotgun
Is the way you want to step out of this life.
But real pain is when that decision is on your mind
And there is no one, no one at all, to talk to about it.


Lake last Saturday night.