Poem A Day

Pain -- has an Element of Blank --

by Emily Dickinson

Pain -- has an Element of Blank --

It cannot recollect

When it begun -- or if there were

A time when it was not --

It has no Future -- but itself --

Its Infinite contain

Its Past -- enlightened to perceive

New Periods -- of Pain.

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Poem A Day

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