Non-Existant Pain Poem by Melissa Joy Chesky

Hitting me,
Kicking me
And all I do is...
Laugh.

I don't know why I'm laughing,
It might be because I don't feel anything.
Or I'm in a different place,
Far away from that place where I lay
On the cold, hard ground.

I don't know why I can't feel anything.
I know they're trying to hurt me,
Hitting me hard,
Harder than usual.
I thought it would hurt more,
The pain,
Nobody helping me
Just staring at me like I am a lunatic,
While I lay there laughing.

I feel the thumps of them kicking me,
Hitting me with two-by-fours,
But no pain comes.
I don't know why,
But I just laugh.