Hollow

She's the only one for me

She's the only one I've found

In silence she waits for me

'til I'm without a sound



She's everything the night embodies

Her beauty is true as steel

Come dance on the Devil's playground

The dead around me is all I feel



She holds me in her silence

She steals away my heart

So no one can ever hurt me

She loves with the fierce of the dark



She's everything that I imagine

She's nothing I could ever dream

Come dance inside her chambers

Where no one can hear you scream



She holds me in her stillness

She's the only one who truly loves me

She's the cold embrace of death

Only through her can I be free



She's everything the night embodies

She's nothing I could ever dream

Come dance in the Devil's chambers

Come dance, dance and be free

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This is about suicide...not love.

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stustaub's picture

Being depressed does suck, yes. My solution to depression? Maybe... not be so depressed all the time? Now, for the poem. The alternating rhyming couplets are well delivered, flowing, and powerfully worded. The mainstay of the poem is, I assume, that one loves another, but the another does not necessarily love the one. It seems there is so much more pain attributed to love than anything else, sometimes.