All of a sudden, the floodgates of my soul were open
and tears came running down my face
as mountain springs that had finally found their way to the surface.

All of my feelings,
the blissful love,
the endless joy,
the acute anger,
the intense hatred
and the drowning sadness,
all came out at once for but a second,
only to be forever silenced by the void that now reigned in my soul.

All that was had faded fast
and by the time my eyes had dried
my soul became but a shell,
cold and dark,
Never to see light again.