Lauren Manson – The Hollow

The Hollow – Lauren Manson

The echo I embrace with open arms
A breathless room of mirrored views.
I sit and stare and not a thought is whispered.
Movement would be too much a chore
So I sit and listen to the echo of nothing.
Nothing could be something through a different view,
My view reflects and is stagnant, in the shimmer of darkness.
My head and heart inflict pain
As icy tears I bare freeze on my cold surface of skin.
This pain is the past and I know it will last
Until the echo of nothing, the empty, is filling.
When it overflows, my scars will show and happy days will be a gift.
No one will ever know this echo
Unless they have truly felt with their whole heart.
Alas my heart is not whole
It is one which my hands hold together
With pieces falling through the gaps.
My emotional strength is my net and the salvaged pieces endure.

Name of Artist: Lauren Manson

Title of Piece: The Hollow

About the Piece: My own personal struggle with pain,emotional and physical.
Feeling mentally and physically drained and alone.
Diagnosed with Endometriosis in April 2011 and have been suffering years beforehand.
Intended to bring hope that there are plenty of women out there feeling the same way.

About the Author: Poem written about emotional and physical pain. Confusion and frustration not knowing why and feeling alone. Casual writer.