Reacting To Emptiness Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Thoughtfully looking from way in back, getting a different
perspective on surroundings.

Everything looks so far away, so distant, that it brings
loneliness closer in.

Reacting to the emptiness inside, the world seems to have
disappeared and left on one here to confide in.

Lacking in self-respect, no one caring if you're alive or
dead, feeding on self-pity which brings hatred into focus.

Tempting fate to run away with someone else, thinking
thoughtless deeds for no reason.

Stepping upon left over fragments that haven't been swept
away, taking away the shroud of life and looking beneath it.

What you will see is all beneath you, resting in an
avalanche of deadened time, totally forgotten and never more
brought to mind.