None of it really matters anymore;
neither our own impending erasure
nor the sudden vanishing of others;
not even the remote possibility that
no news might indeed be good news.
No one knows this better than we:
we’re hardly even here this minute.
Nothing is anything anymore.
Nothing. And none of us matter.
Nothing is real. None of it. None.
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Real enough! I don’t want this nothingness to end.
I feel this.
I’ve heard this. I suspect there might be some truth to it. For nothing here endures. And yet, in this moment…
Perhaps this may be so in the end. Such is reality.
Thanks so much for being part of our poetry community. Cheers!
God, but do I ever feel this.
-David
So sad…Seems how so many people in the world are feeling now with the helplessness of sickness.
Nihilists. As you say, they’re hardly even here. Nice satirical piece (though you guess that they probably don’t do poetry either. Cheers and thanks for sharing.
No news is indeed good news as our current pres. has so aptly displayed! I like the repetition and agree with Peter, nihilists don’t do poetry!
We do take ourselves way too seriously. (K)
I have to disagree with ‘None of it really matters anymore’. Surely it never did! Nothing ever was or cared or moved and we never lived just crawled long enough to die. I could go on but it’s almost Christmas 🙂
Goodness me. I am almost embarrassed to admit, even in a pandemic, that I’m optimistic and happy, I have family members who’ve recovered well from Covid, and I’m still in love with my husband of 42-years. Everything does matter, Ron.
This is poetic magic …. here and now. The only magic left. Loved this. Loved.
A rather indulgent credo to excuse no responsibility I believe, but I actually like the idea that nothing here is real, because to me, real would have to be eternal, and the physical world here is always shifting and seems like we live on borrowed time lately! Cheers to more poems in the new year 🍷
Your words speak well for the nihilistic credo. Oh, sigh, such a pointless way of being.
Excellent response to Peter’s wonderful prompt Ron — haunting, but strong. Hope you have a great holiday season, and look forward to reading more of your work in 2021. That’s of course, unless we all disappear… or ARE we already gone? HMMMM? 😉
This causes me to think of politicians telling us they’re improving our lot while driving us ever closer to the moment when none of us matter anymore.
Still, I think that everything and nothing is more or less the same… at least very close to each other.