Posted by Paco (204.111.49.13) on June 07, 2000 at 19:40:45:
Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886
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;
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.