Emptiness shouldn't feel like this.
It should have no sensation;
yet today it feels like hunger.
A dull clawing call to fill
its gaping—gnawing--
Lonely Space.
So I eat,
And hate,
And cover the pain of feeling
empty—and---HUMAN.

We all have our ways of coping with pain. Since I was 7 or 8, mine has been eating. Maybe I mistook the gnawing sensation for hunger. Lately I do that less. Perhaps I'm feeling empty less often.