Contest:Character Poetry Contest/Aurelia - Maple

Poem=

What is Pain?

 What is pain?

''Pain is the unpleasant ache you feel in the depths of your stomach, packed like tough clay Pain is the tightening of your throat in the most unbearable way Pain makes an enemy like no other foe For I should know

To be unwanted Too many times to be counted And far too many, each one an impossibly agonizing memory, to be forgotten

To be out of place As I have never faced Somewhere I truly belong

To be extraordinarily different And bare the pain of never finding an adjustment From adults and children alike

To have the one person who has suffered too, all through Stolen away from you In a temporary period of time in what seemed like forever

Above is only a list of few In contrast to what else Pain can do

If I have learned anything at all from the hardships I have dealt It's that Pain demands to be felt

But deep within the many regions in Pain Are greatest stories' domain As someone once said, "You cannot make a rainbow without rain."

I have healed I have found my peace Buried in Pain it was concealed

Through my suffers and horrible past, I have grown Finally--into a person of my own

And I have learned Through hardships, lost battles, and scars I have earned That Pain is temporary

For I should know.

Notes=



The poem was about Aurelia Flanagan, a daughter of Pandia. The poem describes all that she's been through. Her whole life, it feels as if it was just her and her twin sister, Lyra, against the world. From foster homes with only filled with false love and neglect from the parents, to watching the people she loved the most disappear, some forever (the death of the her first foster mother) and some temporarily (Lyra's death). However, it is with over time and years of being broken down over and over, that she learned how to heal herself and choose to force her hardships permanently into the past. Aurelia's learned to forgive and forget, move on, look onward onto what's important today, and most importantly, how to recover from pain.