I Am Empty

• Faith Roche, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2013

I am empty.
I have nothing left to spare.
My heart and soul have fled.
I am nothing but bare.

The colour in which I am,
promotes how I feel.
That right.
Blue.
Dark.
Alone.
Left.

Others have trapped me in my presence.
Stopped me from being who I want to be.
Who I admire.

Why? I don't know.
That is for others to answer.
I have no light left.
I am lost in anger and madness.

I once helped the world.
I once made a difference.
Maybe only a small one, but enough to matter.
I am no-one.
But that is not the case for you.
You can be anyone.
You will never be left completely alone.
You can always start again.

But a bowl....
I am nothing, but done for!