It could represent a person once powerful, someone with a voice, a message, and a purpose in life. Be it a career, a business, a family or some other venture, by some twist of fate or stroke of bad luck, that purpose, joy, or expression was lost. Watching all you've achieved in your lifetime be taken from you, leaving a gaping void, a wasteland where your life once was - it's painful. For a person who's used to success, who's used to easily filling up that empty page, trying to rediscover the power of positive thinking and the ability to move forward after such devastation can be terrifying. Starting over, finding passion again, turning "water into wine" as you once did... it's not easy to get back up after being knocked down like that. Withering away from the world isn't the answer, but for a time, it is an option while one's heart and soul heals after being ripped away.
The world is what you create. You can wither away, or accept the loss and find a way to fill that empty space.
Yet another interpretation.
It could represent a person once powerful, someone with a voice, a message, and a purpose in life. Be it a career, a business, a family or some other venture, by some twist of fate or stroke of bad luck, that purpose, joy, or expression was lost. Watching all you've achieved in your lifetime be taken from you, leaving a gaping void, a wasteland where your life once was - it's painful. For a person who's used to success, who's used to easily filling up that empty page, trying to rediscover the power of positive thinking and the ability to move forward after such devastation can be terrifying. Starting over, finding passion again, turning "water into wine" as you once did... it's not easy to get back up after being knocked down like that. Withering away from the world isn't the answer, but for a time, it is an option while one's heart and soul heals after being ripped away.
The world is what you create. You can wither away, or accept the loss and find a way to fill that empty space.