Our Life & Our Death

I may have finally realized that pain is what keeps us going.
We all feel it, an immediate or even a phantom pain.
A pain that may be felt in the future, perhaps.
But we can all feel it coarsing through,
Burning through our very existence.

However, it is also what stops us from continuing.
Breaking us down, pushing us off of the edge.
Literally or figuratively. No matter what,
Whether it kills us or drives us,
The pain eats away at all.

The pain doesn't discriminate.
It only intensifies or lessens.
Intensifying our strengths,
Or making us lesser.

Either that is the truth, or I am a fool.