10

We are not the pain but pain is ours

That flows through bone and marrow.

Is this the most that I can shoulder

or more beyond my charter.

The scale that measure grain and wheat

cannot the feeling measure

but simple things as 1 to 10

are here to gauge our fervor.

Was this my 10? Am I near that?

or 9 or 8 or better?

The pain is measured in more than tears

and comes in waves of terror. 

The stress beyond is worse than flesh

when one is hurt by other

That pain beyond the number 10

and I the one, the wiser. 

For now I know, that merely flesh

can never meet the prior

and I will cede to death his due

before I pass the other.

- Trish 2014