Bleak

 It was here I learned

The meaning of bleak

I felt it in my bones

Here week after week

The word whispered 

Behind my mind's eye

Suggesting a feeling

Of others before I.

-Kelly Voelker

Bleak* - (of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.

(of the weather) cold and miserable.

(of a building or room) charmless and inhospitable; dreary

*Definitions from Oxford Languages