Pain conceals Pleasure

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  Is it that every one
  Ever seeks pleasure, never pain?
  Isn’t that a woman
  Courts at delivery her pain,
  Or that a lad stakes his life in a battle?
  Isn’t that a girl
  Forgoes her parental care to flee
  With her boy?
  Also a beggar emptying his bowl
  To the one, still poorer?
  Pain, embraced, leads to Joy.
  Pleasure contrived, leads to peril.
  Each pain is a step towards Joy
  And is a yardstick to scale the Joy.
  04.08.96, Agartala