About Nothing

-About Nothing-
by Keaton Foster



About nothing
It turns out
To be something
Many many words
Lyrical absurdities
Within a swirling sea
Of logical fallacies
Infancy, bred into each idea
Redundancy not sparred
A point can be made
In a million and one ways
The vastness spreads out
Touching every possible horizon
Masterful hypocrisies
Folded much deeper inside
Neatly placed in a way
Meant to be found
By only the most
Discerning of minds
People who live in no box
People who hold no
Preconceived notion
Of what is supposed to be
Such relation
Is paradoxical by design
What is it
What does it mean
How is this man
The one no one sees
But everyone comes to feel
The one beyond the page
Beyond the words enslaved
How is he so in tune
The answer
Quite simple
He was created
In this way
He was forced
To become who he is
But even with
The energy applied
There are the smallest
Most impervious parts
Of who he was before
That have been left unchanged
Mixed
With what he’s become
A toxic concoction
Of both leaning ideas
And reality squared
Floods from his fingers
Bleeds from his mind
Screams from the depths
Of his committed heart
About nothing
Such wondrous realities
Created by him
A significant madman
With a series of dreams
Maybe they’ll come true
Maybe they won’t
Either way
He is right here
Alive on this earth
Doing his part
About nothing
It turns out
To be something
Far more important than him
Mountains more than us
Not everything written
Reaches those intended
But maybe just a few words
A subtle sense of meaning
Slowly creeps within
Outward bound
All that was intended
Screams to be received
Digital transmissions
In an analog world
Ahead of their time
Such words will become ageless
Theories stricken in madness
Apply now just as before
Those few can relate
The others cannot
The man with the page
Speaks what he feels
His soul soars
When another replies
To you, I truly understand
That’s all that he needs
All that he requires
To keep moving on
About nothing
Is for a man like him
And those few who understand
About everything…


About Nothing
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.