What you want is so close.

Dangling just out of reach.

The only barrier between you and it is pain.

So you bite down and take it.

***

Somehow, you do not see to get any closer.

Yet it remains.

A reward as intangible as an idea.

So you bite down and endure.

***

You pray for relief out of hope.

But there is no reply given.

That prayer had already been answered through that barrier of pain.

Yet you continue to bite down until blood and tears flow freely.

***

Let go.