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Cognitive Content. Or Lack Thereof.

February 10, 2011
By Cayla Carhart BRONZE, Livingston, Texas
Cayla Carhart BRONZE, Livingston, Texas
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It’s hard not wonder what’s beyond the stars.
Not to have curiosity past the confines of visual modality.
To pretend that there’s nothing, no one behind the curtain.
The obstructing panoptic that we call “reality”.

How can one believe in nothing at all?
It’s like saying your appellation is Irony.
You might as well record the absence of sound.
For pursuing an existence without means must be agony.

I like to hear every claim, every notion.
To understand every angle of this amorphous humanity.
Yet, I can’t help but dare to wish, want, and pray…
That the world could distinguish the truth from insanity.


The author's comments:
I tend to think a lot about what happens after death. So one day, my best friend and I were having a discussion on the topic of the after-life and came to the realization that some of the people closest to us don't believe in one at all. We then attempted to, if only for a moment, believe in nothing at all as well. We failed.
This poem was inspired by that discussion and was written to express my disability to believe in nothing and my cry for others to believe in something.

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