My Cheshire Pain

There was a point in time
where pain was bad.
It meant

stop
                               look at yourself

something is wrong
                                 
                                  fix it.


Then somehow some way,  I fell in a hole
flipped the world upside down
and pain became the goal.

When did I become crazy enough
to consider pain the reward
and pleasure the punishment.
How did my thin skin become so tough?

It's only when the pain disappears
do I realize
it doesn't make sense. 

{Prompt:  "Only the insane equate pain with success" - Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland)}

Copyright: September 12, 2013