Don’t put glitter on my pain!
Allow me to suffer free from meaning.
Pain is pain is pain is pain

I am no diamond in need of hardening.
And there is no light at the end, not even a tunnel.
I don’t want to be your hero!
Pain is pain is pain is pain

I didn’t ask for it.
And it wasn’t sent for me.
And it better isn’t part of somebody’s bigger plan.
Pain is pain is pain is pain

Don’t call it what it isn’t.
Don’t give it names that suit you well.
It ain’t no transformation just because
the image of a butterfly makes it easier 
to swallow - for whom?

Don’t put my pain on a pedestal.
Don’t sweeten up my suffering.
Don’t promise to turn my life into a good story.
Pain is pain is pain is pain

I am not saying that nothing more is possible
but allow me to start from scratch
and yourself to experience what is.

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