Into the Void

By: Cara Swann

Darkness

For I have looked over the edge
And seen the emptiness of oblivion...
It is not the endless vista
Of demons, destruction and fear...
Instead it is...quite simply
      Nothing.

Imagine for a minute: NOTHING!
   Can you?
I doubt it...
 But I've been trying to understand
Nothingness from the time
I was old enough to recall
    My own thoughts...

Nothing.

Is it black?

Absence of light?

A blind person's view?

   What?

Humans cannot begin to imagine
The vastness of an overwhelming
   NOTHINGNESS.

Yet we live in a swirling cosmos
That will eventually destroy us...

Yet we pretend our existence is
    forever, eternal.

         Fools!


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Ashes

There will be ashes over us all
In time's burnt-out sun
When all we humans have done
Becomes meaningless, useless.

There will be no shadows
Of our human loss,
An earth barren as dust,
And none of us will matter
For time will be done, gone,
The trivial quest of humanity
A joke, a jest, an eccentricity
And our ignorant arrogance
That life was somehow important
Will have ended in nothingness.

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