What The Thunder Said, Vol 4 | Page 65

Empty

by Philip Mackenzie

There is a space between a crevice

Located between two rocks and a stone

In a dried up river where no one likes to go.

In this space there is nothing

As far as the eye can see.

This is not to say that that is a bad thing,

Nothing is good, it keeps me sane.

Silent and uncluttered

This space offers the one thing that nothing can:

Nothing.

There are not plants, no living things,

Just bare-bone rock and a little bit of stone.

There is no sound in this space

And only light that breaks between.

Pure. Joyous. Emptiness.

The small amount of light that breaks in

Glints off of small particles of nothing

Showing me the slow tidal wave

Of nothing that never seems to crash

Because nothing has nowhere to go.