Steve Brandenburg
EMPTINESS
Dreading each day
when you awake;
Always forlorn
your life a mistake.
Why were you ever born
if only to mourn?
No matter what,
you feel the scorn.
Day after day
its friends you seek
but through the curtains
you only peek.
Friends are out there
why don’t you seek?
Because of emptiness!
©Copyright January 3, 2004 by Steve Brandenburg
Submitted for the January 2004 IWVPA Club Theme Project, “Emptiness”