Beautiful Poetry

Nothing

They told him "Nothing lasts forever"

So Nothing's what he left to find,

He filled his heart with quiet cobwebs

And pushed the thoughts out from his mind.

Dropped all the things that ever hurt him,

Then dropped the things he cared for too

For they say, "Nothing's worth the pain"

And pain was all he ever knew

He picked bouquets of silence

Wore the shadows as a coat

Then used their inky darkness

When on the empty air he wrote

"My whole life I've chased Nothing,

For it I have Nothing to show.

I've got Nothing in my heart

And there is Nothing that I know,

But I'd give Everything for Something

That could erase what I'd been told,

For emptiness is the heaviest thing

I've ever had to hold

~e.h