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Indifference personified
Silent Voices
: The Weight of Nothing by Jessica Wheeler
Emotions Poetry Contest contest entry
Artwork by meg119 at FanArtReview.com

 
They linger, lost within me,
just a routeless road to roam,
not knowing where they came from,
or where they're meant to go.

I give no light to follow,
provide no dark to dwell.
I'm a world to wander, washed
of meaning and color.

None speak to my kindness,
and many call me cruel.
Futile assumptions 
about intentions,
nonexistent.

I'm felt in absent feeling,
and seen in what's not there,
an echo of the silence,
the shadow of detachment.

I am a vacant
nothingness, yet
heavy is my burden
to those whom I have latched.

Deprived of pain
In my offered numbness
at the heavy cost
of feeling.

Yet, all that is, was born;
with some, I've shared a womb.
though often, a remnant
of what was harmed,
a shell, cracked.

For all that's dead
once must have lived,
and only beating hearts
may stop,
as deepest of emotions
cease to stir.

I am but nothing,
if not an outcome
of massacred emotion.
 

Author Notes
Indifference or apathy is a state of disconnection where there are no strong positive or negative feelings towards a situation or person. This disposition can be seen as a disregard or disinterest and can be characterized as a lack of interest, concern, or empathy towards people or things. In my personal opinion, this is one of the most dangerous states of mind as it can harm relationships, interactions with others, and one's own self.

     

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