Chronic pain is so hard to endure

Carry it like a curse

Impossible to ignore or forget

Medication might dull the effects

But it still keeps you tensed up

Reminding you that you are the victim

Teaching you a lesson the hard way

Scolding you to avoid doing whatever it was causing the pain

Be it a careless injury or a sickness from your bad lifestyle 

Often its neither and you have nobody to blame

You start to ask why me

You become envious of those who live pain free

People are sympathetic but they cannot feel your pain

Its not something that can be shared around

You are stuck with it 

Your cross to bear

Your torture to suffer

Sleep brings temporary relief

Nothing worse than waking up in pain

You start to bargain with your soul

Making deals if he can eliminate the pain

The penance will be worth it

Keep bargaining