Carlo,

Emptiness like the fields after midnight
everything around me has lost their light.
Escape from everything is what I need
I can't go on oh Lord, help me, I plead.

What makes me feel this way, I do not know
the pain I feel just continues to grow.
The conclusion I see cannot be true,
but the emptiness inside me ... is you.

• This is a poem I wrote for my then girlfriend who felt that I was the source of all her misery. It was how I perceived how she felt about me at the time. This was around 1993 -1994.