memories of pain
unrelenting ever-present
breathe into the pain
expel it with your breath
compartmentalize
it sounds good
sounds holistic
but when you are wallowing
in bone deep agony
for countless hours
the only remedies are time
and heavy drugs
take from that chaos what you can
pain is chaos
and chaos is the great mother
source of the unknown
birthing newness into your world
The Ace Hotel Notebook 