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Feeling Nothing |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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It is better to feel empty than feel nothing at all, the deep heatless vacuum that leaves me hollow to the bone. Even numb means I'm aware of being numb, to have no reference not even preference for the anger hate or pain you left me holding as you slipped between the shadows, yet still aware of feeling numb. Empty means I can define my limits, know my boundaries, feel a bottom, touch my sides, calculate my volume; it's only nothing in disguise. I can fear feeling empty; I can hate or love feeling numb; even sense them coming, as I watch what I become. In nothing I'm as limitless as clear night skies, in the South, before the Southern Cross can arise from deepest blackness, beyond black. Nothing means I realize, if I should let go, I won't know I've gone and never know a reason to come back. ©2003 by icebox |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
The thing is, icebox, if you are nothing, then what is this feeling you give in poetry, profund and deep. If you are nothing, then I should not feel such ache from reading your words. So, the conclusion is, that you are something, not nothing...and definately not empty!! (I am not usually so logical) |
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QjQ Member Elite
since 2003-04-18
Posts 3756U.S.A. |
nice write,, i enjoyied the read... A voice of honesty |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
I experienced this feeling a few years ago and it is not a place I would wish on anyone...how did I move on...life has a way of moving you on...James |
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Skyfire 
since 2000-12-27
Posts 3381Riding |
And for those of us who are still inexperienced with life, we wish to be able to feel NOTHING  Good read, I really enjoyed it, thank you  It is said the Creator has taken a handful of South Wind and given each newborn Arabian the power of flight without wings |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
In nothing I'm as limitless as clear night skies, in the South, before the Southern Cross can arise from deepest blackness, beyond black. Your nothing is full of beauty! Love, Margherita |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
and now you've gone and made "nothing" SOMETHING... shaking my head. You are delightfully maddening. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
May I just echo what Serenity said? ..and add...this is FANTASTIC!! ~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~ ~If you haven't heard the sunset, |
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IntoTheFlames Member
since 2003-06-21
Posts 92Va, USA |
Truely great write!!! Anyone who feels nothing has something wrong with them!!! ....but Great Job!!!!  I really liked your poem!!!!!!!!~*Summer*~ |
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brian sites Senior Member
since 2002-06-25
Posts 1475usa |
I wish I had written this you speak of the void.........and the instinctive fear humans have for it all we know of it..is that it is there..... that black suffocating chasm that eludes our senses damn.... very nice |
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Ceinwyn Member Elite
since 2000-07-09
Posts 2175VA |
yes for real!!! you've described this nothingness into somethingness sheesh wait are they even words  whatever...enjoyed..If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried. |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
I am so there....except that I still feel. It's like walking a tight rope, and wishing I would fall to one side or the other and be done with it. It is better to feel empty than feel nothing at all, the deep heatless vacuum that leaves me hollow to the bone. Even numb means I'm aware I think I'll sleep on it. icebox~ You are one fine poet you know!! [This message has been edited by BluesSerenade (07-06-2003 01:15 AM).] |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
Nothing means I realize, if I should let go, I won't know I've gone and never know a reason to come back. doesn't that just say it all? |
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Nan
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
To appreciate the value of nothing - means something indeed... |
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gemjop Member Elite
since 2002-11-18
Posts 2587Pencilveinia, USA |
Empty means I can define my limits, know my boundaries, feel a bottom, touch my sides, calculate my volume; it's only nothing in disguise. you make me want to cry. i'm with mr sites, i wish i'd written this. you truly do get better and better. into my library with you! |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Nothing means I realize, if I should let go, I won't know I've gone and never know a reason to come back. I would have sworn I'd burned all my diaries. *S* Excellent write, icebox... however unsettling the remembrance. *S* |
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gemjop Member Elite
since 2002-11-18
Posts 2587Pencilveinia, USA |
i just wanted to come back and read this again.. |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
Empty means I can define my limits... Fantastic writing as usual ice, alwaysl ook forward to your writes and they always exceeed expectations |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
enjoyed this |
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