I feel an emptiness within me,
A void.
With one look, the hole I worked so hard to fill,
Lay before me, gaping, black, hungry,
And empty once again.

All at once my courage and strength drain from my body,
Into the dark canyon,
Leaving me frail, weak, afraid.

I'd create a lake of tears,
But I cannot cry.
My tears for him ran dry long ago.

The healing reversed.
Scars turn to wounds.
Wounds that weep for eyes that can't.

They weep tears of a long ago pain, burried deep within.
With renewed strength, they wash over me,
Drenching me, weighing me down.

Weak and unable to stand,
I fall.

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