Pain is Obligatory by Ashley M Brown
One must not seek To erase pain To evade pain Or to evict pain We are obliged to accept that we must Embrace pain Endure pain Encounter pain And experience pain We earn our peace We ameliorate the negative effects of our pain When we no longer seek to eliminate it We cannot neglect our sorrow We cannot abandon our calamity Nor can we disregard the disesteem that pain has brought We can no more shirk our pain than we can sidestep our responsibilities There are always repercussions for the malingerer