Moratorium: Emily XIX

Think about your pain, your sorrows, and you will see that they have no real beginning. They just were. You might be able to think of an event that first sparked this pang of pain, but then again pain might have only been felt quite a time afterwards. Can pain be pinpointed? Would one conclude, then, that pain is ever present, a constant, and it is only ever given leave to raise to the surface when happiness can no longer suppress or overcome? 

PAIN has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
It has no future but itself,	5
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.

Or, maybe...
That is why happiness and joy are so different. Joy is constant. Happiness is temporary. So, the gaps between happiness reveal the pain - because one can have a constant joy while possessing pain. Pain is merely magnified due to its undesired or unpleasant realities.

This too shall pass.
To make passage for the next wave.
Take note. Take joy. Love Emily Dickinson.