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Zero

Sometimes it doesn't rain. Sometimes long enough for a drought. But then it comes pouring back, and i feel green again.
Both redrawn from experience and revived.
Both knowing and confused.

So what concept am i built upon? What mind could imagine? Mortared upon the foundations of nothingness, lazily staring at the cornerstone.
...And concluding I'd rather be a nomadic idealist.

Burdened thought weighs nothing in words, but carries so heavy.
And when the wind blows, I'm reminded to cover my face against the razor sharp sands of scarring time.

Battles that cannot be won, fought with a sigh. As the yelling voice calls your name to the front line so clearly. "Pawn!"
It's a sacrifice it's willing to deem necessary.
....And here you were a number.
A cornerstone to build upon. Of a basement of bones and solitary thoughts. All wrapped around an experienced to never now be able to experience.

Zero

Lightyears between the stars as travel paves the road through dark matter.
No light to reach the edge. A universe expanding edge into what exactly? Nothingness i cannot wrap my head around.

And when life is extinct, who's to say it ever lived? That non sentience even has a place to evolve. Then wonder where it came from and what bricks it built upon.

With lungs inflated, gasping at nothing. Fixated on where the next breath will come. Drawn in upon the attic dust. Laid down, searching for why the ceiling hides the sky.

I'll drop my penny into the well to watch it all go dark. No echo. Completely gone. With an idea of where it lay, but an unknowning quite completely. A formula fixed on imagination.

We only know when it is gone.
We wonder now, where it has gone.
Never holding the answer, to the concept that it merely just, once was.
But now it's not.
....And should we question if it has ever been?

Zero
Written by DCLXVI_1989 (Garrett Asa Hughes)
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