✧ Call of the Void ✧
✧ Light the Demons ✧
Book One of the Call of the Void Series
“They said the void would swallow me whole, so I built a home inside it.”
The Pull of the Void
Some descents are silent. Others scream. In this moment of spiraling emotion, the speaker questions the voices around her—and inside her—as despair grips tighter. This isn’t just a poem. It’s a reckoning. A hand reaching through the darkness. A choice to either drown… or fight like hell.
Featured Poem: Are you there?
Are you there?
Can you see me?
I’m right here beside you.
Can you hear me?
I’m screaming your name.
Trapped. And sinking.
Is this how the story ends?
Drowning.
Cold tendrils like fingers spreading up my throat.
I can’t breathe.
I replay my tape.
Scenes from my life flash before my eyes.
Was I a good person?
No, but I tried to be.
The water’s shallow.
I could just stand up.
It doesn’t have to be like this.
I could be free.
Safe.
I need to try.
Maybe it’s not too late.
Maybe it is.
I try to stand and the weight of the world holds me down.
The weight of broken promises.
Of loveless “I love you”’s.
Of all the lies you fed me.
I’m not good enough.
I’m not whole enough.
I lost my melody.
I hear a soothing voice begging me to stay.
Stop struggling. We can drown together.
You’ll never have to be alone again.
You can trust me.
Is trust even something that exists anymore?
Is compassion? Love?
Or are we simply unable to appreciate them?
We can’t see what we have in front of us until it’s no longer there.
We treat everyone as expendable.
Interchangeable. Undervalued. Unimportant. Insignificant.
I’m drowning.
I try to take deeper breaths.
Poison and despair fill my lungs.
Toxic sludge created by falsities. By untruths.
Did you ever love me?
Or were you only in love with how I made you feel?
You breathed in my light.
Filled yourself to the brim with my kindness.
Until there was nothing left.
You had it all.
Every particle. Every atom.
Maybe if I had saved some for myself,
I wouldn’t be in this mess.
I’m afraid.
Of dying.
Of living.
Fearing everything is cowardly.
Fearing nothing is foolishness.
I’m drowning.
Every moment of uncertainty pushes me further.
Will you give me your hand?
Will you tell me everything is going to be okay?
It’s going to get better.
I just need to trust you.
That’s how this journey started.
I need to throw myself a line.
Pull myself out of the icy grip that’s holding me down.
No one is going to save me.
I need to save myself.
I need to be strong.
I need to have faith in me.
There are no heroes outside of stories.
No happy endings.
I need to be my own knight.
I need to ride into battle for me.
To love myself.
I loved you.
I likely always will.
But love isn’t enough if it isn’t returned.
You didn’t love me.
You desired me.
You loved having me love you.
You breathed it in.
Crushed it up and shoved it up your nose.
It made you feel powerful.
Indestructible.
It destroyed me.
I was left hollow.
Empty.
Alone.
Drowning.
Not able to understand what I did wrong.
How did I get here?
How can I leave?
I still love you.
Drowning.
Everything around me is fading.
I’m not me anymore.
I want me back.
Will she ever come back?
Or have I killed her with my greed?
With allowing people to steal her spirit.
I spent years stifling her pleas with drugs.
Anything to not feel the sting of betrayal.
Of loneliness. Of longing.
No more.
It’s time to take a stand.
To stop looking for others to love me.
To start loving myself.
Before it’s too late.
Call of the Void: Light the Demons is a visceral journey through grief, healing, and the echoes that scream in silence. For readers who crave poetry that bleeds, survival that shatters, and the kind of truth that lives in the spaces between every line.
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Whisper Into the Void
Wish to be heard in the silence? Share your name and the place where messages may find you. From time to time, you’ll receive letters born of ink, ash, and memory—echoes from the edge, glimpses of what’s to come, and truths that never made it to the surface. Or follow the murmurs on social, where unspoken words live freely.