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Book 35 Page 40

Nothing

If you go to the end of the universe and step over the edge, there is ‘nothing.’

If you were to 'be no more,' you would be ‘nothing.’

When time stops there will be ‘nothing.’

And so I ask myself, what is this thing called "nothing"?

And to be honest with you, I come up with ‘nothing.’

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au April 20 2002