Empty Skin

4 0 0
                                    

I am a body without a soul,
A hollow shell, an empty whole.
The hands that touch me feel like air,
And when they're gone, there's nothing there.

I cry at night, my pillow drenched,
In the silence, my heart is clenched.
There is no warmth, no love to hold—
Just icy sheets, forever cold.

And in the mirror, I see my face,
A stranger trapped in empty space.
The person I was, is long gone,
Leaving behind this broken song.

I miss the days I used to feel,
Before my wounds refused to heal.
Now I'm just skin wrapped over bones,
In a world that I face alone.

Thoughts that Fester in the Brain: A Collection of DespairWhere stories live. Discover now