Pain-free living

Pain-free living

by Joel Howard

We all want to be happy

want to buy pain-free living

a million, no a billion!

Yes! That will be enough

If I can buy my way

out of all hardship I face

buy a sacred space,

flee this lowly rat race

Alas! My goal is futile 

Pain pursues me like a detective

looking for his goal

O the pain of my soul!

For when I'd buy freedom

I would hide in rooms, overcome

overwhelmed and incomplete

full of dread and on my knees

still pain would have its way with me