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gets frozen on your face
once you experience great physical pain
anguish suffering it’s subconscious

if you’ve been in physical pain for a time
anguish pain and suffering
are frozen on your face not yet
thawed
not yet melted

for some, that expression sticks

when they told you ‘go to god’ you didn’t know the door you knock
on a place where somebody hands you a new scared expression
they photograph it frame it put it on the living room table
kind of picture you imagine your dad has hidden away somewhere
of his time fighting a war he didn’t want

now there’s a picture of the remnants of pain frozen on your own young face
you’re the next cover model for National Geo in your sister’s photography collection
some bird with an expression of pain frozen on her face

not that you can’t experience happiness

not that you can’t smile for the camera

not that you don’t get why people are smiling
you can
you do
you do
you

just also identify

with that pain in others
before it melts as it

melts

you want to be part of the reason of melting it not
keeping it
frozen

there