Ghazal #5

We move along through life feeling no pain.
We are caught up in events, so there is no pain.

Oh, we experience that which is ever so difficult
but really are inconveniences and actually no pain.

And for the most part, barring any unforeseen event,
we muddle our way through creating our own pain,

which we indulge and make into reasons for discord,
but in life, there is the inevitability of real pain,

which bears down upon us like a fast, freight train.
Lost love has happened to me; you, too, will feel
real pain.

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