Spacelessness Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Confusion saddens, fills me with pain, I cannot get past
it's hurt.

No answers are brought out into the open, no forums to talk
within.

Scattered life and nothing more in between, helpless feelings,
lost in a maze with no exit or reprieve.

Everlasting emptiness breathing down my neck, causing the
sorrow to embed itself deeper.

There are no guarantees anymore, no satisfaction handed out
on silken pillows.

Granted perfection is uninhabitable, deserted upon an earthen
floor.

Lanterns filled upside down, oil running out, spilling down
the mantle of the past so long ago.

Tears falling hard and fast, leaving no traces of the pain
felt intensely within.

There are no places left to run to, they've all been filled
with spacelessness and shoved beneath desert sands, a lone
cactus marking the spot.