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Poetry notebook: words

  

May 13, 2013

 

I can’ believe how bad it feels, knowing that there is no hope, that in a year of whispers, sighs, only emptiness comes at its end, not now, not yet, but soon, when she  decides she can no longer stand the rising and falling, when she assumes that nothingness is preferable to pain, coming fully to believe good and bad are just words, what is left to live for? The only Rolling Stones song about sinners being saints, and since I am neither, I wonder what side of the scale of life I wind up on in her eyes, someone who is a mixture of both, struggling to weigh in on good she doesn’t believe exists, and in a world where nothing matters, where right and wrong, fair and unfair are just words, what is left to live for? We float in a limbo of emptiness, looking for meaning when everything that would mean anything are merely words.


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