Devoid

Because when your eyes hollowed out mine,
There was nothing left.
Nothing left to feel,
Nothing left to see.

Shadows that used to form
Under the brilliant sunlight
Now disappear behind the smoke,
Between the dark and the dawn.

Where I stand, where you don't see me.
Where I breathe,  where you don't hear me.
Where I weep, where you don't feel me.

Because there was nothing left of me.
When the light in my pupils dimmed out,
Two flames blown out by words you breathed,
And now two holes are in place,
Where you used to see me.

Two open graves,
Where you used to reach for me.
Two empty rooms,
Where you used to play with me.
Two hollow tombs,
Where you used to love me.

-Noemi Garcia Rigsby