The emptiness of loss

• Rona Tiumalu, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2006

I sit here with this feel of emptiness that runs within. Feeling incomplete, but having everything I need. I humm a soft tune that makes me understand that the emptiness I feel is not something that's missing but the world. This feeling makes my eyes tingle as I hold in the tears that can't help from coming down...
... My silence reminds me that this emptiness will forever be, but I feel proud to know that every time I smile it fills one side of that emptiness in each person I know, because it gives them that slightest bit of hope that they need...
...The hope of knowing that the emptiness will never be replaced, no matter how hard you try to replace it. The hope of knowing that the emptiness cannot be filled, but the emptiness fills you... The emptiness of loss