Emptiness

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A shadow of what once was
 
A ghost of what will never be
 
I sit alone at the dining room table
 
Emptiness is all I see.
 
 
Is it possible to sit here
 
And wither away like the rose
 
That's sitting in a glass on the stone counter
 
Long since surrendered to its foes?
 
 
The tears are no longer running
 
All that's left is cold apathy
 
My head hurts now as badly as my heart aches
 
But I want not the world's sympathy.
 
 
Trails of black still line my face
 
Dark circles still ring my eyes
 
Like scars on some pale, pathetic soldier
 
The anger now has its prize.
 
 
The silence simply laughs in my face
 
Suffocating, angry and grey
 
Telling me now that I'm all on my own
 
Everything to make my nerves fray.
 
 
I'm a shadow of what once was,
 
I'm a ghost of what will never be
 
Sitting alone at the dining room table,
 
Emptiness is all I see.
 

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