Love Poem: Empty
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Written by: Sarah Leatherman

Empty

Alone again within myself
 Emptiness with the faint sounding echo
 I swallow hard fighting back the tears
 Looking at the walls bland art deco

 I wish my brain used a megaphone
 And my heart could write a book
 Screaming brilliance into the night
 And words of all that love that was took

 If only my eyes were x-ray machines
 And could read what's on your mind
 Your eyes judging me endlessly
 Although you say your thoughts are only kind

 I wish my feet could change the hands of time
 Taking steps from present back into the past
 Would I write a new future? 
 A new shadow would I cast? 

 If only my voice spewed words of hope
 An ear to listen I would grasp
 Lips hypnotic to the eye
 Around your heart they would clasp

 I wish your arms were wrapped around me
 Squeezing this hallow shell
 Filling it with love and joy
 And taking me from this hell

 If only your hands would touch my face
 Bring warmth back to my cheek
 I feel I will blow away into dust
 And these,  the last words I would ever speak

 I pray your heart is always with me
 Together beating as one
 May you never forget me
 And may our course never be run