Nothing
Can you feel it sometimes?
This feeling that goes and comes
That always hangs at the peripheries
Waiting quietly in the shadows
Have you met it this feeling called nothing.
It’s like touching a live wire and not reacting
Like getting stabbed and not bleeding
Like falling but still standing
Like laughing when you trying to cry
Have you met it this feeling called nothing.
It can be friend and it can be foe
When you are down it keeps you centered
When you are breaking and falling
It tricks your mind telling you it’s all right
Then you get to stand when all is falling around you.
Don’t applaud yet if you have never seen it
Coz when its there your happiness won’t be complete
It hovers in the shadows reminding you
Whispering all that could go wrong
So your lips freeze before
That smile hits your eyes, before that warmth thaws your heat
It’s nothing yet its everything.
Copyright © Marion Mwangi | Year Posted 2016
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