Pain

Sometimes it seems that pain

In some cases, gut wrenching pain

Is comforting.

Especially when you aren’t sure whether you’re still alive

Or

Perhaps wondering whether what you’re seeing (and feeling) is

Real

Or

Not.

He lay against the side of the car

Relaxing his body

Having grown tired of attempting to fight gravity and trying to twist his body so that his

Perception of the world jives with where he thinks the horizon

Lies.

It hurts but at the same time, he’s glad it hurts.