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A personal selfie - living with chronic disease isn't easy, but it won't stop me.
A personal selfie – living with chronic disease isn’t easy, but it won’t stop me.
Rylee Austermehle

Something we can hear see feel and breathe

It sneaks up to you like a big wave in the sea

It hurts all around you don’t know what to do 

Feeling a bit like the only thing you know to do is to be you 

But you keep falling and the wave keeps pulling you out stronger and stronger 

What do you do know 

Can you deal or fix can you fall or stand 

The truth is we can’t control the tide or our pain

but we can control our reactions 

If you feel like crying or screaming do 

Nature releases its anger too

We’re all different and that’s a gift 

We all deal and hurt and fall and scream 

Maybe that’s okay that’s what makes us real and human 

Pain is mean and unfair and a monster

I can’t just turn on the lights and it goes away no 

I have to face mine every single day 

It’s in the back of my head and all around

when things are going great it seems to pound 

I’ve learned it’ll never go away. but I’m here to stay,

so watch out pain because my story is survival not failure and fate 

I’m gonna show the world what I have to say

and maybe you can come again some other day. 

Knock on my window pull me down stairs

say I’m not good enough say I can fail 

I’m not letting you win anymore because pain is just a four letter word

and my name is 5 ,so I’ll always win day and night 

I’m not scared anymore to cry and fall down

because when you look at it more clear.y

Pain is what got me here.

A recent painful moment (Rylee Austermehle)
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