“Emptiness is an all- pervasive feeling of lack of movement or fulfilment in life. It is a hollowness that can’t be filled. It is stagnancy like doldrum”~ By Poet Of late, I am haunted by an empty feeling. This I have been trying to overlook, But it has grown into alarming proportions. No one can really know what I am passing through. With vicious teeth and jagged talons, This morbid feeling tears me from inside out. There’s a kind of emotional void in me. My mind is adrift and I can’t find solid ground. You can never see it in my demeanour, Nor discern any trace of it in my voice. Somehow, I try to hide it from others With a bubbling and facetious façade. But it fattens in me, making me feel I am done Which I can no more, ignore. What I have is not actually pain or bitterness But something I cannot name or define. I feel life is empty without the option of any choice A cosmic blink determines the pattern of our lives Our status, rank, our highs and lows, all determined By a power beyond our conscious control. This emptiness inside, stays on with me Without the outer world coming to know of it. It is as if everything is slipping away from me. I fear, I am fated to carry that feeling till my end.
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