The Abyss

• Brendan Benson, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2019

Is anybody out there?
Time is precious,
Tick, Tock
I’m in the darkness
No light, no hope
Why does it have to be this way?
Sadness torments

Is anybody out there?
This deep, dark abyss goes on
And on, my heart fills with pain
That pain struck hard,
I’m wounded with loneliness and pain
It can be healed with a light, which shines forever
But here in the abyss there’s no light
That shines, that light has been extinguished
This abyss torments me, there’s nothing I
Can do to fix this loneliness