the void

The Void

Fading away from something into nothing
From that nothing sprang forth the Void, in vile splendor
The Void growing inside, threatening to consume my soul
Sometimes unknown why the feelings appear and remain
Control maintaining harder than imagined in the first place
My own voice represented in vain, vacant; the Void voting for visions of pain
Sucking life out leechlike, parasitic infestation uncontrolled

Am I the only one black within?
Not so much black as empty
Yet filled with the Void
I vanish, to be gone

Knowing not what I do anymore, life’s a mystery
The show’s run by the Void, tickets unfound, yet not lost
Tolerated to a point, looking back to see it was never there
Is it possible? Highly improbable, the Void resides as me now
Dead is my outside, empty is my inside; yet full of despair
As the shell of the man I once was the Void, always consuming, became me
Game over, the vampiric Void drained out all hope, gone forever, vanished everlasting.