DEVOID

You know mindless people seem to live in peace. They never worry about helping, hindering, or the status quo.

In the nullifying non-quantitative 
That is where my thoughts always lay 
Lost to my perennial insentience  
I stoically saunter through my day 

I don't have all the answers 
To be honest, I don't even care 
I live moment to moment
I hardly notice time is there 

I am content to be a nothing 
Nothingness has no weight
My emptiness has no conscious 
So I have no trepidation about fate 

No, I am happy to just breathe 
Soon that too will go away 
I will pass away without a care 
Devoid of anything to impede my way  

© 2013 Eddie Phillips

Author's Note

You know mindless people seem to live in peace. They never worry about helping, hindering, or the status quo. They just go through time smiling. They are devoid of any emotion and though that is crazy it is freeing in a way. Decided to write about that a bit ago. Clearing out some of last years hold over poems.

Reviews

[Rita L. Sev]

They say that ignorance is bliss... but you have correctly announced here that indifference is bliss to the mindless person- though it is a drain on society...

[Anand Sehgal]

I am content to be a nothing
Nothingness has no weight
My emptiness has no conscious
So I have no trepidation about fate

Profound lines. Beautiful work !
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[Baby Ricochet]

Interesting poem and interesting thought. Is it better to be "mindless" or tormented by the injustice you see all around you