I've always found it peculiar

How people categorize pain,

Comparing theirs with mine,

And concluding mine's worse.

But the way I see it, pain feels

The same no matter what brings

It about, there're no distinctions

To be made about it, pain is pain.

I always find it very disturbing

How people dismiss theirs when

They find out about mine, as if

What they feel isn't legitimate,

Or isn't as severe in comparison ;

As if their feeling pain is misplaced

And completely unwarranted 'cause

No horror stories exist to back it up. 

But I completely disagree.

The fact it's there is the most

Relevant part, not how it got

There.  Pain is pain. Period.

Mine isn't worse than yours.

Please don't say that, makes me

Feel like you're tossing yourself

Aside as if you didn't matter...

How we got here doesn't figure in,

We all know how it feels is all.