I have no pain today
Today, no pain

All day I think I’ve waited
Unawares
I wait to ache

But no pain today

A strange thing, I think
And I wait, but nothing

Lying in bed
With cool sheets
And such comfort

There’s no pain today

I don’t hunger
Nothing I want

I move only to feel the sheets
On my skin
And breathe in content

No discomfort

You’ve come into the room
and that’s good to me

I don’t have to move
to fetch you here
to share this thing

So lie with me then

Here, in this bed,
Without pain

We made this place
You and I, we made it
And it’s strange

We forgot the pain

It’s good then
but strange

How did we forget?