1.
Painstakingly
Pain's taking its
Time to punish
A crime
Committed
Quite innocently
For free
By me...
2.
Painstakingly
Pain's taking it
Far too slow
To grow!
Yet how I wanted
To show that I'm
ploughing my pain
(in a cycle like grain)
Though I knew
Those seeds
Were far to cheap
To reap.
3.
Painstakingly
Pain's staking
My heart
To a tree
For all to see
That the one
Who pain's taking
To nowhere
So speedily
Is me,
You see?
4.
Painstakingly,
Pain's making my work
Truly loyal
But despite my hours
Of toil, there'll never
be spoil;
Unlike grain, it needs no rain
Seeing it feeds so
Heartily
On me
With glee.
6.
Painstakingly,
Pain's taking me
Out to play
Yet this is a game
Where pain's stakes are set;
On my loss pain has bet
And when the game is done
(and pain has won)
I'll no longer be free
Because I'll be the one
Who'll depart
As pain's takings
I fear,
My dear.
7.
Painstakingly
Pain's taken me just one way
To stay.
Seeing I left
Tickets for two
To ensure that you'd
Follow me too
With such tickets
To go
It's hard to
Say no
I think,
Don't you?
by Zachàr Laskewicz
December 2007
Last updated 9 May 2008 (Ghent)
Illustration added 3 March 2009 (Ghent)
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Pain's Takings (Poem by Zachàr Laskewicz)
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