Pain is a loathsome creature.

It clings and burrows.

It steals your energy and enthusiasm.

It sucks the joy from your favorite activities.

It renders you dependent on medication to get through the most basic daily routines.

It makes you curse the day and fear the night when it robs you of sleep.

It plants seeds of self-doubt and fertilizes them with depression and anger.

It shrinks your world and your dignity.

Pain is a loathsome creature.