Oldies but goodies

I wrote these poems in grade 10... I THINK it was a creative project for Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, but I can't be too sure.

It's kind of put together in a booklet entitled "Loneliness", with some really awesome AMATEUR black and white photography (thank you, Susie, for your help with that)

Enjoy.

The Cherry

Atop a mountain of creamy divinity,
A smooth river of chocolate velvet,
sits the cherry.

A single cherry, plucked from it's home,
A tree.
To face it's destiny,
alone and unprotected.
To complete the image in solitude,
Atop the sundae.

Questions (this one's great, really captures the mentality of a teenage stress case!)
Why do you consume my every thought?
What is it about you that keeps me so addicted?
Who am I to say that I am your one and only?
Where is my sanity, my concentration?

How is it that you don't even know I exist?

Emptiness
A water stain on the ceiling,
A puddle on the floor.
Who is there to see this carefully planned display,
that God and a leaky roof have created?

The floor meets the wall
at a perfect angle,
The floorboards complete this plain sight.
Who is there to admire something so complexly simple?

The sole substance in this vacant space,
is the stale, dry air of the past, present and future.
Who inhales this life force and recognizes the fullness of the empty?

Bones of Loneliness
On the outside:
a smile,
a diamond bracelet,
a face to make a goddess jealous.

On the inside,
there's a woman
of skin and bones,
a woman who is empty and alone.

A skeleton for a soul;
The flesh of love and friendship,
stripped away by the leprous disease of
Loneliness.