effortless pain.
it is suddenly there,
unwanted and unwelcome. honest and brutal.
no blood but flayed still.
timeless, ageless
but perhaps for the unfeeling.
the wretched.
the resigned.
and the compliant.
the pain is a companion,
a balance for the abyss. that still beckons
not to stare, but
to leap.
for the faithless.
the guiltless.
but pain is a tether.
and stays.
the abyss can only wait,
like the endless night that it is.
