The Emptiness Inside Me

A blazing fire of loneliness

has scorned my insides

engulfing me in flames.

Silence confines me, and all is quiet

with the exception of a muffled cough

as I gasp for air.

I cry out to the cruel world,

begging for mercy,

yet there is no one to hear my screams.

I begin to lose hope,

for the will to preserve

has long left my crestfallen soul.

With eyes sealed shut,

I try to reminisce on my days in the sun,

but the memories of my darkest nights

spent in solitude under the moonlight

are all that I have left.

And so I crawl back to my prison of isolation,

where I shall remain incarcerated

for all of eternity.