EVERYTHING & NOTHING

Unsinkable Author: Chukuku (Chuku) Ebuta

EVERYTHING & NOTHING

Everything in this room is stuck.

In this time,

nothing has changed.

Everything outside these 4 walls,

everything inside of me,

everything I tried to be,

you see, has changed.

Yet, your still radio plays

everything and nothing

it still has to say,

spitting and garbling and spilling

everything that’s happened or will,

across from a window, frozen, still.

Now,

the radio shares everything

...with nothing,

...with no one

slouching into bed beside it,

asking questions,

snoring in sunlight,

or seeking redemption.

Now, the radio shares,

confined to a room,

of tears,

choking breath,

old fears,

of nothing...

you, or I can hear.

Seeking and destroying,

a seed destined to become a tree,

or something,

something..that owes,

something daring to grow.

Inside me,

an older heart has been living,

lingering,

beating,

for promises still kept,

despite everything, despite nothing,

These are your tears I’ve wept.

I was nothing,

and nothing has changed.

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