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Nothingness


God made everything out of nothing
but the nothingness shows through.
                                  Paul Valery

Only silence wells
in the dark throat of the evening
and anything you hear 
is of the world's making
or your own mind
filling up the empty spaces.

Music is made this way
and poetry, as they try
to give substance and form
to what is missing,
to fill that gnawing void
with a note or word.

Works fluoresce 
as exotic creatures do 
in the dark of deep seas, 
small, faint flickers
punctuating the unknowable
with momentary life.
And so it is,

we are drawn towards
a centre that seems everywhere,
a nothingness rolled
into a ball, the circumference 
of the infinite that resides
within us all.

Copyright © Paul Willason

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