Nothing
NOTHING
You cannot think of Nothing,
Without thinking of something.
You cannot comprehend,
No beginning and no end.
For Nothing always never was,
The absence of existence.
Our u n i v e r s e expands.
Into what?
Because Nothing is never enough.
Before the cosmos was created,
There was no vast and empty space,
Still and waiting to be filled.
For there was no space,
As there was no thing.
No atoms and no strings,
No matter and no meaning,
No line of time endlessly streaming,
Nor God, conscious and thinking.
Nothing is best described,
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | A A B B XX X XX XCX CA XAAA XX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 551 |
| Words | 103 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2 |
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