Echo in my Heart

I’m feeling empty right now

There’s an echo in my heart

A hollow place where love should sit

I want so desperately to fill it

With something, anything

Anything except pain

It’s already there coating the walls

So everything slides back in

Everything except love

Because something so beautiful

Floats on silver lined clouds

Blanketing the heavens waiting

For lovers, true lovers

 To walk along moonbeams to reach it

But that’s not where my heart lies

No, it sleeps in a place I don’t speak of

When I talk of goodness and giggles

The emptiness I keep hidden

Beneath the words, under the smile

Behind the eyes where people don’t look

Because it’s an ugly thing

Consuming all those it touches

I think it’s always been there

In my heart…tucked away in my soul

I don’t listen to the pain

I turn away and put on a smile

To mask the tears dripping down my chest

Becoming a river, drowning my soul

Turn away now, before you see through

The colored glass shielding my eyes

Before the light fades and the emptiness returns

To consume you.