An Empty Oak Cask

My only cozy one

My sweetest Sunshine

The evergreen woods

Those have called me now, why?

The winner mistletoe

The wind is fine

The hustling leaves

Those have frozen me now, why?

My craziest sunset 

The breeze brings me a message

The ever precious pinky sky

Those have gifted me dark now, why?

Cause this is of

My barren womb?

My sleepless nights

The creepy days

The ever shadowing evenings

They've been shown to you 

As a reason, why?

Summary:

 "An empty oak cask" is a poem that speaks of women who can't have babies. The title itself representing that by meaning "emptiness of Oak Cask". Because Oak cask will be more valuable when it contains whiskey. Everything means about whiskey alone and not of that Oak's progressive in preservatives. Just like that everything matters about that baby no about the mom's biological process in pregnancy. 

"Cause this is of

My barren womb?" 

Along with that; mom will be called Barren women just like a barren land, even if it's dad's hormonal imbalances.

"My only cozy one

My sweetest Sunshine"

In these lines, the poetess symbolizes two figures involved in a mom's life. One is her child and another one is her husband; Sunshine. She represents that for a mom the only comfortable is her husband and beyond him, her child.

"The evergreen woods

Those have called me now, why?" 

Evergreen woods means Dense forest refers to be the darkness of life. In the second line 'calling me now' is sensing that the longings made her alone. Alongside the mom feels her imaginative baby calling her means to death.

"In the winner mistletoe

The wind is fine

The hustling leaves

Those have frozen me now, why?" 

In the last line, the poetess mentioned " now" which means not like before. All those winter mist, wind, and the sounds of leaves were not cozy like before but not those were freezing her (mom). Here the coldness is mentioned for the depth of the hard times. The mom feels like even that leaves also hustling her barrenness.

"My craziest sunset 

The breeze brings me a message

The ever precious pinky sky

Those have gifted me dark now, why?" 

As the second Stanza, here the poetess mentioned now again which means not like beforehand; her favorite time of sunset with the rare pink sky that pleads human soul with gentle chilling breeze became not like before but referring her dark shades in the evening. That mom feels like that the breeze before brings her melodious song from her chamber but now it brings the message that has been a full-time topic of people around her village.

"My sleepless nights

The creepy days

The ever shadowing evenings

They've been shown you 

As a reason, why?"

Here the poetess again used the symbol of the word " you" referring that the two figures (child and the man in her life). That mom laments that because of them she suffers her life. Because of her husband's erectile dysfunction, she has been called childless, infecund, infertile, sterile, unprolific, desert, desolate, dry, empty, unfruitful, unproductive, waste, arid, boring, dull, flat, fruitless, lackluster, stale, uninformative, uninspiring, uninstructive, uninteresting, unrewarding, useless, vapid. To the child, she asks why aren't you coming to me and laying there as a reason.