Do you always feel like a background character? Like a ghost, always there but never contributing?

I am a void.

A void is something that takes and takes yet never gives.

I leech joy from my friends, chasing the high of feeling I belong.

However, I feel as though I cannot return that joy to them.

I have nothing to give them, as if I were an empty box.

Wanting to be filled, yet there’s nothing to exchange.

I am a void.


Submitted: February 24, 2025

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