Rod Maughan Poet Free verse

The Nothing

...And so the Nothing takes my form...
 
Feel the void within me, clinging on I scream
Frustration at my lack of ability to fight
Claws grasping at me, to suffocate this life
All I was, all I am and all I'll ever be...
 
And so the Nothing takes my life
Deep down it eats my apathy
The less I do, the more it feeds
The more I hate, the more it needs
Can't let the Nothing take my all
Somewhere inside, that start I made
Now tangled up with all my fears
Potential lost over the years...
 
The Nothing takes my life...
 
An empty space I've fallen through, can I ascend again?
Do I have the strength needed, it took so much before...
Hands pulling at me, to try and hold me down
Everything, all of me, what will I become..?
 
And so the Nothing takes my life
Deep down it eats my apathy
The less I do, the more it feeds
The more I hate, the more it needs
Can't let the Nothing take my all
Somewhere inside, that start I made
Now tangled up with all my fears
Potential lost over the years...
 
The Nothing must be fought...
But I can’t fight what I can’t find...
 
(Rod Maughan, July 2010)

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