The pleasure in pain

As life grabs you by the throat

Choking you as and when there is an ego bloat

Thrusting pain vehemently on your soul

Beating you down from pole to pole

Life is as tough as sailing on a sinking boat

Life tries to drown you as you try to stay afloat

Crippled, paralysed, yet moving on

Looking for greener pastures and forgetting the old burnt lawn

Life is after all nothing but a painful journey

That offers quiet among the crowd’s cacophony

And amidst all, you sit and ponder

Is life worth the pain or is death better yonder?

But then you pick up the shards of your broken heart

From the sad lands of self-pity you vow to depart

And all through this pain, you gain experience

In all the timidity some confidence you begin to sense

Philosophy starts oozing from every pore

You start realizing the impact of pain instead of feeling sore

Like wine, the years shall help you bloom

Glory days shall one day replace your gloom

That is when you realise the pleasure in this pain

You wouldn’t have risen if you hadn’t been slain

The success in your palms would make no sense

If you didn’t have to break barriers and cross the fence

Ultimately you embrace the bitter truth of mankind

Life is a pleasurable pain which is one of its kind

Death may give you a moment’s solace

But beyond the unknown do we know if in death there’s grace?

So yes, there shall be philosophy, pain and experience and pride

Take this and life’s pleasurable pain all in your stride

Learn over time that life is nothing but a journey of pleasurable pain

Without the downs and the blows there can never be any gain!