Rhonda Johnson How to Deceive Pain Invite it Entice it With an open bleeding heart Refuse comfort Brush away wise words With "yeah but, you just don't know" Like a refrain A tribute To pain Open your heart a gaping cocoon Like legs spread in excruciating orgasm Helpless to resist the pounding throb Feel its total agony You got to feel it for real You can not pretend Once pain is inside your heart Where it thinks it has a haven Conceptualize it into a poem It will never know what hit it Because even while you are writing You are feeling Maybe it will even grow worse And as long as you are feeling Pain will feel it is alive Until you turn that poem into an instrument of love Someone else's strength And invincible forgiveness Pain's worst enemy and dreaded bedfellow It will never know what hit it