Nothing More Than Why

Alone with a feeling of emptiness briefly filled by lovers passing they share crumbs of loneliness and hungry passion a gray world of unmade beds and sadness where no one listens words flow to fill vacant ravaged eyes for various reasons everyone yearns for empathy's hand to grasp a warm and tender smile without a price where love is nothing more than empty pockets from a cave of bats rushing into the cool air of night their flickering tongues nourished by the sympathy of victims I've asked nothing more than why cry out... I'm here no one answers but the lonely who use emotion for their own needs I lay behind clouded windows and feel the sun rise and fall on fulfilled laughter, I hear in the distance where no one sees me I've become a shadow on a wall...that has no eyes left alone with a feeling of emptiness 7/16/17