This is a shortened revised version of a poem that takes something usually known as negative, and idealizes it to become something positive.

I have written it in my own uniquely structured style whereby the first and third stanza sentences begin with the same letters, the third and fourth sentences rhyme in each stanza; the second and fourth stanza sentences begin with the same letters, and the third and fourth sentences in each rhyme, plus the last word in each stanza rhymes with all the other last words of each stanza. Also note that the first letter of the first word in the first ten lines, is the same as the first letter of each word in the last ten lines, essentially mirroring the first letter of the first ten lines with the last ten lines.

The Positivity of Pain


Turn pain into “positivity”.
Use pain to your advantage.
Take pain and gain new strength.
Turn pain into an ally of length.
Pain’s catalyst manufactures new vigor to grow.

Use pain to gain relief.
Use pain to learn patience, kindness, endurance.
Pain brings a certain dignity in knowing,
Pain can laugh at life and keep on going.
Pain makes assurances not to be bound by any foe.

Turn pain into “positivity”.
Use pain to fight for right, while cushioning the fall.
Take pain to tear down anger’s bulwarks.
Turn pain outward for times of endurance.
Pain bolsters anger’s guide worn too much to know.

Use pain as a catalyst to grow.
Use pain to drive you on for knowledge.
Pain is on occasion like a long-lost friend.
Pain moves away but soon comes again.
Pain has a purposeful time, there no exception to show.