My poem “Empty Inside” was written during a dark chapter in my life. In 2008 it was published in the book “Collected Whispers” by The International Library of Poetry.

Empty Inside

How many times
Can you take yourself apart
And put yourself back together
Just the other way around

And it’s not the right way
‘Cause you still feel the pain
You can still feel the emptiness
In everything you do

How many times
Can you fall and break apart
And break everything around you
Just to give yourself away

And no one can hear you
‘Cause they never feel pain
They’ll never feel the emptiness
In everything you do.