Hollow

Out in the blackness, in eternal darkness Space beyond imagining, a fathomless void The illusion of size to scale, of some significance Reality an illusion, wrought by a germ on a tiny rock How tiny a star, how so much smaller it’s planets The distance between them, is so impossibly vast Empires crumble and fall, in barely an eye blink And all the while falling, dancing around a ball of fire Indefinite sorrow knowing only what’s told to deceive Another bleak tomorrow staring out at the gray And though my life may be destroyed I will know vengeance Inflicted back upon a world I loath I can hear the clawing demons they tell me don’t exist Whispering from shadowed places in language I don’t know A cold and howling wind runs down Chilling bone as cold as steel The atrocities committed here Are gone but not forgotten