Poem: Tear-Shaped Pain

Always a poet, lately I've been experimenting with shaped poems, where I write the poem into a corresponding shape. It's challenging and stretches my aesthetic creativity along with my poetic creativity. Here's my second one about the pain of empty nesting. It won't look right on a phone, to see the shape, you'd have to open on a computer. Let me know what you think!

2. A

3. pin

4. drops

5. and the

6. loud echo

7. hammers at

8. my hollow heart.

9. It's like an empty dark

10. cave where love once lived.

11. You're gone and that's that for me.

12. Left with a sad abyss of nothingness.

13. That "never to heal from" place where

14. pain multiplies and pounds. I don't want it

15. to leave me because that pain is you with me.

16. It would mean I forgot you and I don't want to.

17. I will never fill the nest with a lame secondary

18. replacement. They'd be miserable and so

19. would I. Unconditional love, a place

20. only God can fill. Except for you.

21. my love for you is the same.

    1. It's incomparable

       1. pure and true

       2. love.