Vacuum

We each have our special empty space

Built right into us

Something like standard design

A hollow empty space

That sometimes grows to embrace

The entirety of the being

At times shrinks to a point

Minuscle and forgettable

And then there is fear

Of that hollow emptiness

That threatens to take over

The "this is it, nothing else

now or ever"

For people

Achievements

Milestones

Removing meaning

From what should have been meaningful

Fear that makes the flesh crawl

At the thought of teetering

Into loneliness

Ascribed wrongly

To meaninglessness

To empty hollowness

For loneliness

Just means a single survivor

While vacuums eat one up from inside.