You laugh from your throat, that's true. But we don't really know where the laugh comes from.
What I think, is that right down at the bottom of our stomachs, hidden deep down in the warmth, there
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Wounds cannot stay--
Only as fading white lines of memory--
All is forgotten with
Time, who steals the importance
Of the sting of suffering.
If, one day, this anguish will mean
Nothing to me,
Let me stay in my agony
So I will never be deprived
Of the brilliant, all-consuming,
Purifying pain.