Best Poems Written by Ade Joly

What am I without myself?

What am I without myself?
I have been discarded
Like trash into a bin
But I cannot rest
For I wonder, what am I without myself?

What makes me, me?
If not the faint and distant thoughts
The caged and free
The parts of me that can't be seen

If I let go of myself
There stands an empty shell
Devoid of all emotion and desire
A shell devoid of myself 

Because what am I without myself?
What am I without memories?
Nothing...
What am I emotion?
Nothing...
What am I without the pain?
Nothing...
What am I without myself?
Not only nithing 
Just a body with no one inside

Without myself I am a shell
A house with no people
A library with no books
A church without a steeple.

Without myself-
I am the little something
Within the lack of everything

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