Already used to walking alone <br />She stood on the edge of the woods <br />Letting the sun warm her face <br />It's touch might smooth away every thought <br />The roughness of the grass on her finger tips <br />Letting it fill her mind <br />Memorising the pattern of the leaves of the forest floor <br />Saplings turned and twisted towards the light <br />To keep these things forever <br />To have them fill the emptiness inside <br />A feeling so profound <br />She took up her pencil and drew <br />The only way to free her of loneliness<br /><br />roshanmumtaz dahoud<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/filling-the-emptiness-within/