Empty

There once was a man
He was full of life, full of hope, he had dreams
One day he awoke, the hopes, the dreams, they had fled
All he had left was his life, emptied of all of the aspirations and dreams
that had made his heart beat with excitement, emptied of the hopes that kept him
pressing forward and kept a smile on his face
All gone, only the emptiness remains
A life empty slipping into abyss of disillusionment, robbed of those things
that make the blue sky seem to be a brighter shade of blue, those things that make
the early morning bright and crisp, those things that elevate life
from mere existence to living.