Emptiness

Emptiness as a human condition can be thought of in multiple ways.
Emptiness is often a painful experience or feeling.
In the painful sense, it is described as a feeling of numbness, inability to feel anything emotionally, or not having purpose. It can be better described as a situation where a certain lack or lacks in one's life overtake the emotional and mental focus in an obsessive, sometimes subconscious manner. Feelings of emptiness often accompany chronic discontent, dysthymia, depression, loneliness, despair. It may seek expression through different types of self-harming behaviors, and in more extreme cases, suicide.
Emptiness often involves alienation, be it temporary or acquired, and sometimes self-hatred. A sense of emptiness is not always associated as such, and may be part of a natural process of grief, as resulting of separation, death of a loved one, or other significant changes to one's life.

(in Wikipedia)

*Photo by Rui Bento Alves, "Uma Pessoa no Escuro"

Empty my Heart, of Thee—

Its single Artery—

Begin, and leave Thee out—

Simply Extinction's Date—

Much Billow hath the Sea—

One Baltic—They—Subtract Thyself, in play,

And not enough of me

Is left—to put away—

"Myself" meanth Thee—

Erase the Root—no Tree—Thee—

then—no me—The Heavens stripped—

Eternity's vast pocket, picked—

poem by Emily Dickinson