Why must I hurt suffering
Despair, cowardice and cruelty
Envy and injustice, grief and terror
All of these things hurt
Loneliness and betrayal
The agony or loss or death
Pain is part of growth
Not accident nor punishment
Pain is part of growth
Nor mockery by some savage god
Why shouldn't I hurt suffering ?
If we are able to feel the beauty
We must also feel the lack of it
Those who glimpse heaven
Are bound to sight hell
To have feel deeply is worth
And so since hurt
Is the price of larger living
I will not hate pain
Nor try to escape it
Instead I will try
To meet it bravely
And bear it
But an opportunity
A privilege
A challenge to the god
That gropes within me
Pain is part of growth
The more we grow the more we feel
Pain is part of growth
The more we grow the more we suffer