There’s just something about Nothing...
Confront Nothing to accept your smallness -
strand yourself in the vastness of a sea.
Examine Nothing to recognize your hugeness -
inspect the spaces inside the cells of a flea.
See Nothing to embrace your vulnerability -
hold the stare of a pariah who seeks acknowledgement.
Feel Nothing to wield your durability -
look away, sure that you'll suffer no such impoverishment.
Let Nothing in to prove your fortitude -
sympathy is a weakness that betrays your power.
Let Nothing out to conceal your attitude -
a poker face is better than a grin or a glower.
Say Nothing to differentiate the laughable -
empty words inspire those without sense or intellect.
Mean Nothing to punish the gullible -
empty promises won't harm the cynical and circumspect.
Know Nothing to save you from the pain -
insight and awareness are the two edges of a sword.
Claim Nothing to free you from the chain -
compunction and guilt bind you tightly as a cord.
There's just something about Nothing -
it humbles, it elevates, it covers and exposes.
Is there anything at all about Nothing? -
it destroys, it enlivens, it builds up and decomposes.