Poetry: Vast emptiness

If you mix love with nothing you will find emptiness
@innertalks (20993)
Australia
October 11, 2021 6:49pm CST
There was a vast emptiness, lost within my nothing. I had overfilled nothing, with sweet nothings, you see. Without God, I am nothing. With God, I am still nothing, but I am actively nothing, fully alive in my nothing. When we don't know anything, we are freed to experience nothing. We have nothing to hide behind, and then, all knowledge is revealed. Truth opens its book, when we close ours. The truth is not what we read it to be, but what it is, it is. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com If you mix love with nothing, you will find emptiness.
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@RasmaSandra (73201)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Oct 21
Just love your poem and that is so true,
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@innertalks (20993)
• Australia
12 Oct 21
Thanks. I wondered about how others would take it. Yes, when we mix other stuff into love, into God, or into nothing, we will then often fill our own emptiness, with mostly useless fodder then too.
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@franxav (13597)
• India
12 Oct 21
Wonderful poem.
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@innertalks (20993)
• Australia
12 Oct 21
Thank you.
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@Shiva49 (26189)
• Singapore
12 Oct 21
We are carried away by our own priorities to experience the real love and meaning in life. Maybe, we need a rebooting from time to time to eschew carried forward and ingrained preferences that corrupt and prevent us from living life with an open mind. That is what God does as we have a fixed term here but it would help if we too do our part from time to time to reinvent and refocus on the very basics.
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@innertalks (20993)
• Australia
13 Oct 21
@Shiva49 The bane of the World is trash, and waste, and pollution from our industries. The idea of modern living has always carried more and more trash, pain, and side-effects, along with it to the future. The future generations are handicapped right from their beginnings. Perhaps, only the Australian Aboriginals left their home untouched by themselves for over 10,000 years, so they always left it the same as they found it. White man could never live that way. Progress creates trash, and trash also is a mentality, carried in their heads too, as unimportant to their continued progress, which always takes priority over any other planetary considerations, such as preservation/conservation/caretaking.
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@Shiva49 (26189)
• Singapore
14 Oct 21
@innertalks We should be aware "all that glitter is not gold". I recall Gordon Gekko: "The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right". When those ideas are dinned into us, we become obsessed with wealth creation and accumulation. We become single track-minded and think other issues will take care of themselves. Only a well-rounded life will be fulfilling but that makes no sense to those already set in their ways.
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@Shiva49 (26189)
• Singapore
13 Oct 21
@innertalks Living with a higher awareness will solve lots of issues that bedevil us now - they will end up as much ado about nothing. One such time is now to start the ball rolling than us lugging around so much trash and then passing them down from one generation to the next with interest.
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