mas-och-ism noun ma-s-ki-zm, ma-z- also ma-: enjoyment of pain: pleasure that someone gets from being abused or hurt; especially: sexual enjoyment from being hurt or punished Masochism is a special kind of word for a special kind of person. The person that presses on the bruise, licks off the blood and looks for the hurt. It's the way words can crawl into our souls, and the teeth that can dig into our flesh. Love and pain go hand-in-hand. Some of us just embrace that notion more than others. A collection of drabbles, short poems and one liners. All explaining what it means to love pain and adore the scars it leaves behind.