A Greater Reality

What’s real?
The answer is clear.
Matter is real,
we hold it close.

But of all the things
that matter feels,
Pain is the most real
of all, it seals

Our fate and tests
our strength of will.
We try to think it away,
but still

It lingers,
a constant presence
in our lives.
But love is more real, it thrives

In the face of pain,
it allows us to embrace
The suffering
and walk through it with grace.

Love is more real than pain,
it's true,
For it gives us the strength
to make it through.