“Nurturing Pain” 

Pain is a mother.

A mother committed to tough love.

She wants you to learn, but by hardship.

She knows you’ll get hurt, but become stronger.

You’ll hate her, and she knows that,

But she also knows you’ll be grateful someday.

She knows that you’ll look at those intangible scars,

And remember how they formed who you are today. 

The pain won’t go easy on anyone.

She only provides, never gives.

She waits for you to find what you need to overcome her.

And she waits expectantly. 

It’s a constant battle with pain. 

She’ll knock you off your feet and stab you with your own thoughts.

She’s there to scream like a siren in your ear when you get headaches from her tests. 

She’s there to make you feel 100X worse.

But who knows?

When you finally pick yourself up,

After being pushed down for so long,

Maybe she’s smiling

Maybe the reason she keeps pushing you further into despair, 

Is because she knows that you’ll push back. 

She knows that when you break, 

It’ll be one of two ways.

You could give up and end everything right then and there.

Or you could push and fight with everything you are, 

Until you break,

Or she breaks. 

But Pain isn’t worried, 

Because she knows you’re a fighter.

Because she knows you have what it takes.

Because she believes in you.

You may think that Pain is there only to push you down,

But not, she’s there to push you up too. 

To bug the crap out of you until you bite back. 

She’s the catalyst. 

Pain is a mother hoping for her child to learn from hardship,

A mother knowing her child can win this game called life,

A mother believing in her child to overcome her challenges and be stronger for them,

A mother who hopes you believe in you too.