Pain — has an Element of Blank
Pain — has an Element of Blank
Emily Dickinson
Pain — has an Element of Blank —
It cannot recollect
When it begun — or if there were
A time when it was not —
It has no Future — but itself —
Its Infinite contain
Its Past — enlightened to perceive
New Periods — of Pain.
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Written c. 1862. Published 1929.
