repetition

pleasures in time

ones blind to the pain

they always atrophy

our very precious empathy

it hollows out

our creepy human body

into this superficial shell

housing a ruined mind

bound directly for hell

always and, eventually

every time...

so I guess,

 the pleasure without the pain

 it simply does not pay

(unless you like that pain, paradoxically...; ) 

Author's Note

before the atrophy, remember