Free Verse: Hollow

In the midst of darkness

and dreadful moment of solitude,

that is when your demons arise.

Not around you but from within you,

tormenting your soul with grief,

guilt, and regrets,

and drowning you with thoughts of

hopelessness and feebleness.


And nobody would come to offer consolation

fearing the deep void that surrounds you

in your moment of loneliness and emptiness.

No one dares to stir your seeming insanity

as the world around you goes by with its own

madness and absurdity.

A hollow shell, you are but a passing obscuration

slowly rotting to your own demise.

Free verse: Hollow by Leandro Angelo Castro is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.