The urge to feel pain

It's all happening right now.
It's happening here.
There are no more exciting things
to experience than right now

That short instant,
the needle pierces your flesh,
I may have realized who you are.
It's not getting to you.
It doesn't hurt you.
And you're off the tracks.

You feel the urge.
You feel the obsession.
You feel the compulsion.
To feel pain

Piercing, ripping your skin.
Doing things that weren't done.
Inducing into a self-trance.
Pushing the human limits.