2 CORN 12:7-10. AND INDEED, AS A CHRISTIAN, I HAVE NO OTHER WAY TO STAND THROUGH IT ALL BUT BY THE STRENGTH OF ALMIGHTY GOD, FOR HIS GRACE IS MORE THAN SUFFICIENT. THANK YOU, JOHN. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS.

Yes, you have depicted the dichotomy of pleasure and pain very well in this poem.

However, pain, whether it be physical or mental, is usually a warning to our brain that we are either hurting ourselves physically or doing something that is hurting us mentally. Then telling us to stop the behavior or the physical pain like having surgery to stop hernia pain rather than enduring it.

As one who experienced pain so great that I had to be on morphine for 20 days and still felt like my arms were encased in barrels of biting ants… If you've ever been bitten by a fire ant like I have, you will know… And, having experienced physical pain for the rest of my life, since, have chosen to have my brain basically ignore it when my brain is actively engaged, like right now writing to you or doing my writing rather than choosing pain pills that can be very addictive and even deadly.

As for mental pain, I've experienced that, too. But I've found that by being kind to others and not letting that kind of action toward me lower my self-esteem or depress me anymore allows me to be generally happy regardless of what comes.

Ron

It's to your credit how simple you've made this dichotomy of emotional and physical reality. Making it lyrical with the two opposites was a "user-friendly" way of construction.

My most identifiable part of the poem is:

In the pain of suffering lies a thing to learn,

A spark of pleasure as fading embers burn.

How true it can be that awaiting beneath the embers is that spark of pleasure. Well done.