Tales of Torment: Void's Company Returns; To Feel Empathy For My Enemy

here, we go again

with void's company,

just, toying with me‐

stalking me

walking in my shadow,

in every social setting‐

just waiting,

for its time to come haunt me‐

searching, for the first opportunity to come surging back

allowing its taunting echo to hurry me back

void's company, sure is clingy,

maybe it has separation anxiety‐

but why me?

at its first opportunity, i can hear it rushing,

steaming towards me faster than the sound of any goodbye

running in to the back of me, laughing‐

singing in the darkness, is all the damage control i have

for my free-falling heart, as it comes down crashing,

splashing into a black sea‐

below a surface of nothingness,

sinking into that which no one can see‐

void's company

in a sense its one thing less for me to fear,

so then, so be it‐

void's company

everywhere that is here, so it's it,

filling the call logs of my phone,

ignoring every boundary, breaking every limit‐

void's company

is no contact of mine, yet still insisting it be a member of my home

but, as long as its here, this house not a home‐

it resides on the list of things i perhaps should not have learned to live with

alongside slumber's absence, and torture's statue,

a long sigh leaves my lips

as it attempts to convince me of its "value"

"how can something synonymous with nothingness have value?..."

"...or anything really?"

void's company

it cries on my shoulder‐

i cannot let it turn cold

apparently, the very words i use to describe a feeling,

has feelings?...

as much as i want to turn my face,

i know that pain, far, far to well to just walk away‐

how can i pity, the very thing that torments me?

but i just can't, help but to show empathy‐

void's company

is lonely itself‐

maybe if can rid it of it's own feelings, of emptiness

it may pass on‐

would that be a happy ending?

void's company

are you listening?

know that you are not my friend,

but you despise even your own company

so i'll still talk to you

and if you must walk behind me,

then so be it‐

just so that even you, aren't alone in the end

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank You For Reading!!!

Here are some others, from the Tales of Torment collection.