Pain

What is pain?
Is it the sting of an insect?
Or the burn of fire?
Is it the cut of a knife?
Or a heart that broke?
Is pain grief for a loss?
Is pain everything?
Does it have a real meaning?
Or is pain something
one can only have a grasp on
when they are in it?
Can you explain pain to someone
who hasn’t experienced it?
Can you tell them how it feels?
I can’t find the words for it.
Can you?
I think pain can’t be measured
if the cause is gone.
Can you remember pain?
I can remember being in pain
but not how it felt.
I can tell you it hurt
but I can bring to mind
how it hurt?
Was it a sting?
A burn?
A cut?
I can’t seem to tell you.
Was my first crush rejecting me a sting?
Was it a jab?
Was it a jolt?
Can you tell me?