Illustration Friday: Empty

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Poem for a hot day...

hot, hotness, suffering the slowness, sitting wishing for coolness, dazed amongst a blinding haze, lost and casting a mindless gaze...
numb to wanting, close to crying, barely here and simply trying...

Illustration Friday: Aging

This is my illustration for the topic; Aging. This particular moment in the pencil's life is probably its last. For you see, judging by its length, it would most definitely not last another sharpening.