Originally conceived of in 1995, “Empty Chair” is a reduced and revised version of an unreleased work called “Silhouette”. The poem serves the “A Shattered Cup of Doom” novella as a piece of the back story of the narration character, a great woe on one man’s failure to lift off and gain traction into adulthood. “Empty Chair” is a Dark Confessional poem that occupies deep depression both in word and in structure. Trigger Warning: This poem whispers of soliloquy, therefore, the reader should proceed with caution.
“EMPTY CHAIR”
in a lonely room
in an empty chair
alone in the silence
i sit there and stare
it’s all the same day after day
month upon month
since we’d last parted ways
from the brightest of hopes
to the darkest of days
i woke up this morning
i wanted to die
in a lonely room
in an empty chair
alone in the silence
i sit there and stare
alone in the silence
it’s all the same mold and decay
time after time
the damn nightmare rewinds
an american dream that
the world left behind
i woke up this morning
i woke up this morning
i wanted to die
in a lonely room
in an empty chair
alone in the silence
i sit there and stare
alone in the silence
alone in the silence
it’s all the same white picket brain
wave upon wave of
infectious rejection
suspension detention
the dungeon of death
i woke up this morning
i woke up this morning
i woke up this morning
i wanted to die
in a lonely room
in an empty chair
alone in the silence
i sit there and stare
alone in the silence
alone in the silence
alone in the silence
it’s all the same young and insane
over and over, will this ever end
from my mother’s basement
to be born again
i woke up this morning
i woke up this morning
i woke up this morning
i woke up this morning
i wanted to die
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