A little pain alerts me to a risk unto my life
a larger pain unnerves me causing misery and strife
a debilitating pain is unnecessary by any worth or measure
I wish such pain revised to a commensurate pleasure

why severe pain exists at all is a mystery to me
none can understand or explain
its crippling purpose satisfactorily 
the great joy of childbirth is excessively marred for the mother
oft the exhausting process of dying is complicated by many ways to suffer

the unlimited pain reflex is a blight on the human experience
think how well a mild pain cap would make significant difference
why does this exaggeration of a mindful tool become
a sensory debilitation raging until done?

it’s only conceivable purpose is to be weaponised by some
to torment and torture others until they do what they are bidden 
or for a perverted sense of fun

I say cut the neural pathways of terrible unbearable pain
and let us be the masters of our lives
relieved of such a bane