Suffering

Suffering

Please tell me what it means.

My dog is injured
and I suffer along with him.

He limps.
I limp.
He endures stoically.
I endure for my sanity.

The circumstances
implore us to do less,
letting the cold stillness
heal the strain deep within
our weary bodies,
hearts and minds.

My dog and I both know
to be alive is to be kinetic.
Yet we must trust this stillness
to somehow let us know
when we may jump again.

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To live is to suffer,
to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche