By hollymccormick
Date: 2001 Oct 10
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Born

Pulsating pain rips my soul
As screams and moans echo through
The colors blurring and images blending together
Through the tears in my weary eyes.

I sense immortality in every painful burst
Of courage as my senses flee
Away from my conscious self
Into the hell that has become my reality.

I seek help in the arms of strangers
Terrified of the looks that I perceive
To be as divesting as the pain
That racks my body.

Petrified of the fear that climaxes
Into a fevered pitch
As each roll of pain
Produces its end result.

With a final gasp the pain subsides
And I hear the angels cry
Beholding the new soul that has become
My labor of love.

To Nikky

November 1991