Why is it empty?
Is this what it feels like to contain nothing inside.
Why do we feel?
Why do I feel like I'm being consumed by emptiness?
Is there something that makes me joyful?
Around me I sense the feeling of love and compassion.
Will I always be consumed by emptiness?
Or will I feel other feelings.
Will that feeling be love?
Will I ever feel loved and cared for by someone.
Will the emptiness leave and never bother me again?
I hope that one day, just one day that this feeling.
The feeling of loneliness will leave me.
That feeling of emptiness.
--Hailey H., 9th-12th Grade