Emptiness

that feeling
of sweet disbelief
while you're enjoying
ice cream from a cone -
heaven in every lick,
until your tongue
suddenly drops
into that hollow -
of the shell
left behind
when all the goodness
and joy is gone;
emptiness
is that magical space
you never quite know
or even thought existed,
until all else
inconsequential,
falls and melts away
into your
unquenchable womb;
the void that cradles
the death and birth
of all of life.