Emptiness
I look inside
In fear of what is out
Tears stream down my face
And in my head I scream
"Why did you leave me?"
As greedy hands and eyes
Envelop and persuade
I ask you in my head
Why you took my soul
And left me
An empty conch
At the mercy of the tides
Crushed by the waves
Then to be happened on
By a careless wanderer
And taken as a trophy
The love is gone out
Empty
Content to sit here on this shelf
And finding escape
In the oblivion of emptiness.
-Angela Becerra