Emptiness and Echoes

By scarletara

August's end bleakly brings
This chapter to a close.
Sadness in the little things,
The things I'll miss the most.
Reality is stabbing me, making me cringe.
My heart is swollen in my throat
With the sorrow silence brings.
Shattered shards on which I choke
Prolong my suffering.
And as this chapter closes,
Another is beginning.
Yet in the lengthy shadows,
The silence is deafening.
Screaming empty echoes.
The silence loudly rings.
Eyes blink, an ocean rose.
Can't you hear my silent screams?
At all the things I never chose,
The despair so deeply clings
To emptiness and echoes,
And all the pain and suffering.
The lonely sadness grows,
Clinging now to everything
For what September knows.
Here I am, alone again.
Screaming at the echoes.

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Copyright 2013 scarletara
Published on Wednesday, August 28, 2013.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: It's been hard to live with that feeling, feeling so broken, so sick and tired, so hallowed out, so flat, and so sad that it aches. Wanting it to stop so badly but it won't. You describe this pain in the best way I've ever seen! ! It provoked an emotional response. 10

  • scarletara On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, scarletara (58)By person wrote:

    Wow. A 10? Well, thank you so much! Glad it provoked such a response. Thank you, darlin, indeed.

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