the clock looms above me
& ticks into my
blood

they say when you feel
"empty"
you should have
another one

but when fortune would
not have me,
fate took me by
my hand

they said when you feel
"empty"
you should find a place
to land

but fate's intangible
grasp; it tricked
me--
led me down a
cursed path

they whispered if you're
"empty"
you should use some of
that wrath

now I stay inside my
chamber
pleading, sobbing for
love lost

they say when you feel
"empty"
you're probably paying
a cost

but I still sing into
the autumn wind;
my soul its
melody


I said I feel so
"empty"

dear gods please
just let me
be.