never immunised

Everyone to his own
pain. I to mine.
generations live
and die -
no life is free
of trials. Perpetual.
Yet, we forget
-and hurt anew
at every new test.
I should think
we'd be indifferent
to suffering. Immunised.
But no jab works twice.
Every trouble
- a new strain of virus
needs new strains
of immunisers.
And the suffering
must go on;
living till time lives.