Saturday, 21 June 2025

Zilch

Why long for a life of eighty summers?

When did existing become a synonym for immortality?


Why fear dying

when you haven’t even lived?


What’s the point of endless hospital beds,

stacked-up bills,

a catalogue of surgeries

stitched together

just to not die?


Do you really think death

will erase a relevance

that life never gifted you?


To think you matter —

that’s the delusion.

You’re, at best,

a singular comma

lost in translation —

wedged between a hundred thousand words

across hundreds of pages

that only found meaning

in the death of forests

and the silence of trees.


Your refusal to die

doesn’t make your half-lived life

any more complete.


Your legacy is a lie.

Your fear of vanishing —

the only truth.


You gave up on living

because you were too busy rehearsing

the opinions of people

who never approved of your existence.


Are you scared

they’ll care less once you’re gone?


What’s less than nothing?

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