Where Emptiness Lives

“Where Emptiness Lives”

(Thomas Entrican, 11/05/2022)

When flowers die they go to seed

But no one really knows

Where sunlight goes when it recedes

Why pain like a river flows

The point at which the bitterness

Takes root inside the heart

Or why the spark of happiness

Dies as quickly as it starts

And as I gaze at the abyss

  That is within my heart

I find this is where emptiness lives

Where light returns to dark

Only the heart can know the pain

For all the love that dies

Refusing to ever beat again

When it loses the spark of life

Forever has no meaning now

Except for bitter tears

All the cracks from broken vows

Grow larger through the years

No matter how much you forgive

The darkness never fades

In a heart where emptiness lives

And the sharpness of its blades