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Absolutely Nothing

December 19, 2012
By ekalix BRONZE, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
ekalix BRONZE, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
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“And he called it ‘Absolutely Nothing’
Because that’s what it was really all about”
Nothing.
You could say it had no meaning;
You could say it meant a lot.
No one ever read it so
how would anyone ever know?

I think that’s
what he felt.
Nothing.
Like a giant wave
pulling you under
for just a little too long
And you start
to feel numb.
Nothing.

Maybe one day
he woke up like that—
nothing.
Just another damned day
of nothing.
And that’s all he felt:
Absolutely nothing.


The author's comments:
We took a quote from an already existing piece of writing and wrote a poem inspired by it. The first two lines in quotes were borrowed from Stephen Chbosky.

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