Soul Laid Bare

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 Nothing


A fair weather friend

but not always when weather is fair

around a few months

gone the rest steadily more

how do I expect to hold a relationship of any kind?

How do I stay a friend when I have nothing, not even tendrils,

to keep me anchored?

Why am I surprised to be alone

when alone is all I give myself?

Gone away

how to stay close?

the sacrifice seems worth the survival

but is it survival to live??

or to enjoy life?

I sacrifice my spirit to give my material life form and then

I agonize

bleed out

from the starvation

I have nothing,

noone,

and how can I expect more

when there is nothing in me to give

nothing of me

nothing

a vast swelling pit of bruised nothing

and yet more of nothing

can that exist? nothing more than nothing?

how do I exist?

swollen reflections of ripped pieces

nothing original

sewn  together pieces of what could have been more

is there more?

 I keep searching for more.......

but all I ever find is my way back

to nothing

nothing less

than nothing

I stretch for it all

but it feels like shadows

nothing real

nothing solid

particles falling apart in my hands

dust

shadows

am I a shadow?

???

sometimes

most times

it feels like there is nothing else

nothing substantial

to base me upon

only shadows

made of light

only dust

made of the lost

Invisible

deteriorated

no impression made

though clay is soft

 

what I wouldn't give

to be real