I am not empty if I cannot contain.
Things slip away
from my dark marble surfaces.
Where is the settling joy of plenty,
that aches to fill the space it makes
with bursts of light?
I go once more to dream
an emptiness into being,
for emptiness is a property of containers.
#poetry #fragments #wip
Jody Hughes
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2025-05-12 21:50:40 UTC
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