The Hollow From Within

My emotions have abandoned me

No longer dwelling in my presence

They have denied me their company

Now hollow within, I'm on a search again

To arrest what has escaped

And my affections apprehend

I am empty no more possessing the sensitivity

That once lingered here

You have set your fears in front of my face

But consolation is nowhere near

I am cold and I am weightless

This hollow within has left me shameless

You have died, I shed no tear

You have breath but your presence I have placed in the rear

Where have you gone, where do you reside

Nothing to inhabit my soul

I'm hollow inside

I am alive, where are the signs

You once appealed to my senses

But now they're on the run, not one can I find

When you cry it is I who remains still

When you are happy it is your joy that I kill

I am racing against time to capture the heart

That has gone with the wind

I am struggling to reinstate the passion

That my name comes not to an end

An apathetic reality I know is what you think of me

A silhouette is all that I am

An outline of what should be

Unable to understand clearly the vision that beholds thee

This inevitable truth has significantly been defined

Betrayed by what I owned

I have strategically been maligned

And so it is

The element that once was my enemy

I now aim to defend

I now know it is not that I've chosen to pretend

I am convinced it is the hollow from within