The Way Suffering Follows

🕊️ We are born with hope in our eyes, Yet we wish away the pain. Turn our heads to hide from truth, But silence speaks the same. We fail to see what’s buried deep— And never learn its name. How can we break the chains we wear, If we don’t know their weight? We run from place to place, Escaping pain we feel. But suffering walks beside us still, It shadows every wheel. We move our feet, we change the air, But never touch the mind. And what we leave, we carry on— The sorrow stays behind. Where delusion lays its roots, Suffering grows unseen. You board the plane—it follows you. You dive—it dives between. For pain is not the world outside, It blooms within the chest. And we mistake its quiet weight For shadows we detest. We say we’ve left it all behind, But it walks in every breath. Wherever we may run from pain, We run with it instead. We think the fault is in the place, But never see it through— The weight we feel, the grief we hold, Is not the world. It’s you. If we never learn its name, We never learn its cause. If we never touch the flame, We never feel the pause. And if we do not know its root, The end can’t ever start. No path can lead to peace outside What lives inside the heart.