Empty
Love is a word we want so desperately to believe,
But it’s not reality because it only means what we want to mean.
What a word so shallow with an illusion of meaning in a world so demeaning.
Am I real since I can be whatever people want me to be?
I can suddenly change everything in me.
So do we really know who we are?
If we make ourselves into whom we are!
I am not real!!
You’re not real!
The hands of fate squeeze me until I disappear.
I am an empty shell full of fear.
People’s words are so hollow.
But all they are words,
That feed us that we are suppose to swallow.
I thought all was real in what you had to say,
But I learn what’s lies in a perfect mask each and everyday.
I change all the time.
People change all the time.
We are all faded and fake.
I have nothing left to give and nothing left for people to take.
I don’t want to feel in a world that does not feel.
In a world not real!
Who am I!
Empty!
Emotions empty!!
Reality empty!!
Truth empty!!
Words empty!!
Tare my heart open! Empty!!
What a life so empty,
But not as empty as my life.
Empty life!
My life!
Your life!
Copyright © Jeanette Huston | Year Posted 2005
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