the hollowness i feel
isn't quite hollow
sometimes it fills
with loss, grief, and sorrow.
i quench my tears
but i don't know why;
i'm too fragile inside
yet i must stay alive;
to tread on the footprints
i've left behind;
to walk into the past
with something to find;
to gain some control
of whom i've become;
to get out of myself
and not be so glum;
to expunge all the fears
and the scabs still unhealed;
to discover my power
and with it to wield
over myself, and myself alone,
and all my sins forever atone.
(Itajaí,21 April,2009)
Melanie Walendowsky Baker
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hollowness/
