To defeat your adversary, study their craft. Learn their art meticulously. To conquer pain, examine it. Unpick its architecture judiciously. A collection of 21 compelling comprehensive poems, this book takes the reader through the mystery of an emotion so familiar to the human race that it intrigues. It probes why humans seem at home with pain and yet, at the same time, resent it. Flipping the coin, this work looks at why the human race also perpetrates and perpetuates pain. A vicious cycle. Through complex, yet accessible, storytelling and retelling, this collection of poems delicately navigates the terrain of this mystifying emotion and unsettles some gripping causes of pain.