Pain

Calm like image of meadows
Calm, calm

Lolling in pain, seat of anguish
Seethe, seethe,
Seethe inside

Treacherous,
If you let it seep
Seep,
Seep outside

Clenched, avowed in heart
Puff
Puff,
Swell
And pulse

Each sigh
and beat
and pus
Refined each day
Like icky wine
To be drunk in silence.

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