Two Poems About Nothing

You are Nothing

Joshua Omena
Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read

I.

To the man living for nothing:

you are empty,

[ ]

a room full of yourself

[ yourself ]

and nothing else


you are nothing else

when you exist

for just yourself


you are nothing

else you live for

something, someone else

II.

I dreamt of air
nothing in particular
just invisible matter

I dreamt we became air
living for one another
like an exchange of gases
we were the reason
why someone could
inhale and exhale

I dreamt we were no more,
no longer anything,
we became nothing
to be something more

)

Joshua Omena

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Poet. Copywriter. Amateur photographer. Daydreamer. Night-crawler.

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