Does Anguish, really exist to make pain bearable?

[Glen]

Anguish exists
to make pain bearable,
without it there's exhausting despair,
and aimless travel between opposites,
that play to rule the mind and hearts emotions,
No straight road, just endless turns,
Circling an unchanging place and time,
An absolute sameness, that stagnates,
leaving a world bared of actions,
stagnant, standing in a fruitless stasis,
a suffering that dominates hope
and that's what makes anguish basic,
it is the ultimate horror,
the moment at which the voids
point zero provides empty nourishment

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

Interesting poem, food for thought. I think that anguish is often a necessary cleansing ... it's sometimes the reaction to "hitting bottom" or realizing how very mistaken we may have been about something, feeling the pain of everything coming to a boil of anguish, so then we can let it go.

[Glen]

Yes we must all face it, and it will come and go.
but we must center ourselves, in times of anguish, so that it's passing will only leave us that much stronger, once it has passed, than we were before it had presented itself........................................

[Wendy]

>>but we must center ourselves, in times of anguish, so that it's passing will only leave us that much stronger, once it has passed, than we were before it had presented itself.............<<

A beautiful reminder! Love your pic, too!

[jane]

"a suffering that dominates hope" is the line that does it for me.... and i agree with barb... you hit rock bottom, but then its time to let it go, face it, feel it, but let it go or it torments and distorts.... there are always good things to remember...

and i love the photo too... very powerful...