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I Am Nothing


If nothing can exist,

Then no one can have it.

To have nothing,

Is to possess something.

 

For nothing is the presence of absence,

Not the absence of presence.

Presence comes from the structure,

That keeps the void from collapsing internally.

 

For the paradox of presence and absence,

Means the emptiness must always be refilled.

And absence can be replaced by anything,

Or filled by everything.

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