<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540734" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The power of nothing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">in a world where nothing existed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(it was very quiet) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nothing people had no lives</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and therefore nothing to live for</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nothing preacher preached nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so there was only nothing to believe in</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were no people fat or thin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So there was nothhing to diet for</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing slunk about or did he or she or it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">unseen not even a private detective could account for nothings movements</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 Because there was no private detective</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2 because there was only nothing, sexless unseen unquantifiable</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>So how did the nothing people know in their absence, that nothing </div><div style="margin:10px 0">existed? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The silence was heavy with pregnant pauses</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing appeared</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>at the end of the world or, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the beginning</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>before one living microbe made it's miniscule appearance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was absolutely nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Absolute in being simple or complex in nothingness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An acute on chronic attack of perpetual nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is powerful</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sinister</div><div style="margin:10px 0">long may it he she </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>reign </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>It takes a fool to harness the power of nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To leap into the murky waters of a certain abyss</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>on luminous fateful day</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Capitulating all other whimsical fancies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dullard genius who idly flicks a switch repeatedly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Announces</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I BELIEVE in NOTHING</div><div style="margin:10px 0">metaphysical quest beyond thing? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or lazy sap obsessed button presser? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The depressed cry 'I feel like nothing'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But was does nothing feel? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>How can nothing feel with no hands? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or soul or heart? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The sceptic says'There is nothing out there but a black hole'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Well there's a black hole, hardly nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet nothing continues to both liberate and oppress us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In one moment</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Triumph and failure</div><div style="margin:10px 0">losses and gains</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are encapsulated even symbolised by the power of</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing a word with a multiplicity of meanings</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yet nothing sneaks upon us when we are not looking</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the middle of the night 'a creak on the stairs'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You go to investigate guess who? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing is there</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doing nothing involves</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Doing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is a dual interaction between two states</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of activity and inactivity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being 'Active in doing nothing'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did nothing all day? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">nothing but, (not quite nothing) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The power of nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is in nothing itself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Absolutely nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>No thing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nuffing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>De serts of vast eternity</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Emily Layabout ada day</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yvette+Smith">Yvette Smith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540734" data-title="The power of nothing de Yvette Smith" data-description="in a world where nothing existed (it was very quiet) The nothing people had no lives and therefore nothing to live for The nothing preacher preached nothing And so there was only nothing to believe in There were no people fat or thin So th..."></div> </div> </div>

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