Is this life?

Is this life? This mediocre, at best bittersweet existence This emptiness that nothing can fill? this void that Is like a black hole; Swallowing up all the light? can this be life? This taker, hoarder that will not concede or even give back That masks and binds Amd will notlet go surely it is not life?! This endless grey, when shall it shift to let in the Blessed rays? when will it give in to the light, Or is this life? Ami 8/10/2000