‘Nothing’ Keeps Munching

              ‘Nothing’ just keeps munching

I Dread the ‘Nothing’ that keeps growing every day

more.... and more.... and more....

Like a worm eating steadily what once was filled

with Life...

I often wonder whether the greatest wish for Death

is not a disguised Deepest Desire for Life!...

Little tit bits springing unexpectedly in my mind

like the striking of a match momentarily lighting

the thick darkness of a room.

One such memory of a then most terrifying moment

and now a very cutely fond memory

was the unexpected chance encounter in my early teens

with a tiny worm crawling out of a red juicy tomato

                             

            i had just taken a lusty bite off

        making both of us leap in Surprise.

Only one of us was screaming hysterically

holding the tomato in the air with an unyielding

outstretched hand and so frozen by ridiculous

primitive fear that could not simply think

       of just putting the tomato down!...

                             

              I cannot help a wicked smile

              remembering my young self

While the ‘Nothing’ keeps munching away

what once was all meaningful Life...