This book of poetry the emptiness I wrote when I was going through some very difficult times in life. After my marriage of 9yrs ended, I realized that I was wrestling with a familiar demon. It was formed some 20yrs earlier right after my relationship had ended with my first love. The demon was in a form of emptiness within me.br br A definition of emptiness - the state of containing nothing, The vast emptiness of space synonyms void, vacuum, gap, vacancy, hollowness, hole, lack.br br I had been following a Japanese anime series called Bleach created by Tite Kubo. In this anime series, the main character Ichigo Kurosaki would transform into a Hollow. To mark the beginning of Ichigo's transformation - his eyes would turn yellow, signifying his Hollowfication has begun and then Ichigo became a creature he could not control. Although the state of Hollowfication in the anime series served an entirely different purpose, I chose to use the concept for my book cover, because I felt that when I