A Life Full Of Nothing

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A Life Full Of Nothing!
Trevon Bailey 1-21-14 Period: 3 Ms.Olazabal
Nothing, a life full of nothing, (Trevon-Poet)
I should just end it, right then and there, (Trevon-Poet) Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night (Walt Whitman: Despairing cries, Imagery) Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home (Maya Angelou: Alone)

Nothing, a life full of nothing (Trevon-Poet)
On my black coffin let there be strown, (Shakespeare: Come away death, Symbolism)
A life full of nothing, please, let that be known (Trevon-Poet)
As I slowly deteriorate, I think about what I’ve had in my life (Trevon-Poet)
Aches, stakes, and heartbreaks (Trevon-Poet) Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone (Maya Angelou-Alone) Anger might be a better way to say “I love you,” truer than “how are you in space”? Are you cold, can I get you a blanket? (Peter Gizzi: Apocrypha)
I can’t love, when I have nothing, I have nothing, a life full of nothing(Trevon-Poet) No family, no assets, not even a place to call home, like a hobo(Trevon-Poet, Simile) Brr Brr Brr, the icy winds choking my empty life(Trevon-Poet, Personification, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia) "Ain't got nobody in all this world,(Langston Hughes: The Weary Blues)
Covering our causes, in closets full of bones (Marvin Bell: Things We Dreamt We Died For) My sorrow; It could not be shaken (Edgar Allen Poe: Alone, Metaphor) Nothing, a life full of nothing (Trevon-Poet) Bare is the shepherd's fold (Oscar Wilde: Canzonet)
Nothing, a life full of nothing (Trevon-Poet) Fade’s far away, dissolve, and quite forget (John Keats: Ode To

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