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I feel hollow and numb. 
I have yet to figure out why I'm depressed today. 
All I want is a damn drink to help me overcome.
I wish I had vodka to make the hollow go away.
The hollow of alcohol is smoother,
Than the hollow of my heart. 
Wine nearly killed me 253 days ago.
And tonight she almost won again.
Sober was easy until I felt this goddamn low.
Greiving the same shit that had me in such pain.
That binge almost did me in for good.
Four months of shoving down feelings.
Not addressing how they treated us so crude. 
I never processed the emotions still feeling. 
Brandy and booze . . . 
They  helped me get by
With essential worker blues
And every single life plan now gone awry. 
No social time;
Only doctors and work.
Putting my safety on the line
Physically and by ignoring my hurt.
No children ever for us.
That's a hard to swallow pill.
I fought only for it to bust. 
My only goal in life unfufill'
I thought I had grieved you months ago...
But here you come stopping by again today.
But this trauma is never ending woe
For the reminders of children happen every which way.
Every commercial,
 Every friend,
Each family reunion, 
Will my heart ever mend?
What are the married supposed to do
If even an adoption attempt fell through? 
Drink, drink, drink,
 and drink some more.
Drown the hollow;
Until my heart's not sore. 
But it's 2/3 of the year already
I have resisted the call. 
I will continue to grieve;
This time without alcohol. 
I feel hollow and numb. 
I have yet to figure out why I'm depressed today. 
All I want is a damn drink to help me overcome.
I wish I had vodka to make the hollow go away.
 .
The hollow of alcohol is smoother,
Than the hollow of my heart. 
 .
Wine nearly killed me 253 days ago.
And tonight she almost won again.
Sober was easy until I felt this goddamn low.
Greiving the same shit that had me in such pain.
 .
That binge almost did me in for good.
Four months of shoving down feelings.
Not addressing how they treated us so crude. 
I never processed the emotions still reeling. 
 .
Brandy and booze . . . 
They  helped me get by
With essential worker blues
And every single life plan gone awry. 
.
No social time;
Only doctors and work.
Putting my safety on the line, 
Physically and by ignoring my hurt.
 .
No children ever for us.
That's a hard to swallow pill.
I fought only for it to bust.
My only goal in life unfufill'd
 .
I thought I had grieved you months ago...
But here you come stopping by again today.
But this trauma is never ending woe
For the reminders of children happen every which way.
 .
Every commercial,
 Every friend,
Each family reunion, 
Will my heart ever mend?
 .
What are the married supposed to do
If even an adoption attempt fell through? 
 .
Drink, drink, drink,
And drink some more.
Drown the hollow;
Until my heart's not sore. 
 .
But it's 2/3 of the year already
I have resisted the call. 
I will continue to grieve;
This time without alcohol. 

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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