Hollow Echoes of Love

Hollow. Hollow. Hollow. Hollow. I'd tear the sky

to hear you scream. That you wanted me, that I was your dream.

My silence bites like sharpened glass. It leaves me stronger in this past. I kept my distance

from your eyes. Learned too young how love just lies. Every whisper, every touch.

Left me broken, left me too much. I walked alone through empty halls. Felt the weight

of unseen walls. Shadows stretched where you once stood. I taste the bitter and not the good.

I built my heart on blood and stone. Alone is safer, I know this bone. If love was meant

to bleed me dry. Then tell me, why do I still try? Was it ever real or just a cruel