pain — Summary

it starts in your chest doesn't it? then it flows to the rest of your body like an ocean waves splashing tidal waves inside your bones washing over your soul

it curls around your fingertips slipping up and down your arms dripping down your stomach to your legs it feels good it feels numbing the more splashing and crashing against your heart your lungs your bones your soul

it feels amazing the numbness washing you out the waves settle it's a calming sensation a nothingness sensation

then it's 3 in the morning tears are pouring down your cheeks pain doesn't exist anymore it's pure numbness succumbing to the thudding in your head the pressure on your heart then you realize

when did the pain become pleasure when did the pain surpass why can't i fix the broken pieces of my body? when did i left the ocean waves control my beach?

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The speaker describes pain as an ocean moving through the body. It begins in the chest, spreads down the arms and legs, and crashes against the heart, lungs, bones and soul. At first the feeling is oddly welcome. The waves wear the pain down into numbness, and that numbness feels calm, even "amazing."

Then the poem shifts. It's 3 in the morning, tears are pouring, and the speaker realizes the pain has stopped feeling like pain at all. The questions at the end are uneasy and a little desperate: when did pain turn into pleasure, and why can't the speaker fix their broken pieces? The last line, with its grammar slip ("did i left"), reads like someone too tired or shaken to be polished, and it admits that the ocean has taken over the beach. The mood is quiet and heavy, soothing on the surface but frightening underneath, because the relief the speaker found has started to feel like losing control.

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