Give me something. Anything to quiet this feeling; this hollowness. Is this what happiness feels like? Is this what it’s like to be content? I’m empty. I am a vast shell of a vessel that’s filled with such potential, such hope; but I waste it. I’m wasted. I’m wasted on the thought of you. The thought of you with someone else. The thought of being alone. I don’t want to be alone. It hurts. It shouldn’t hurt. I am empty. I don’t know how to feel but I do when you’re near and I wish that it would stop. I want to be happy always. I don’t want to be dependent on you for the sun to shine. I don’t want to feel as though you hung the moon. You didn’t. I did. I’m wasted. Wasted youth. Wasted love. Wasted space. If this is what it is to be content; to be happy… It’s a numb feeling. Everything is perfect and yet… I’m empty. I love with a burning passion, so much so that you get torn up and scorched in the process. It is not a slow burn it is all consuming. It consumes me. I’m consumed with a lonliness when you’re gone and when you’re here I yearn to feed it. I need to feel you, I need to be near you. I need to know you’re not leaving. I need to prove to myself that this is real and that you are here and that you love me. If I don’t I burn, my fire stays in me and it burns, it burns, it burns. I’m overbearing. I’ve scalded you; it’s too hot, you can’t breathe I’m smothering you and I can’t stop. You push me away and the flames grow larger. But when you go, the fire slowly dies out. I’m not passionate. I’m not a writer. I’m empty.
is feeling content the same as feeling nothing at all?