Nothing

Seeing the future
there is in my peers
only arouses my own
self-doubt fears.
A healer, a leader,
an ample teacher
to guide me!
But I stray!
I force my own indignation!
And I become nothing.
Nothing:
The amount of something
that has no path.
The presence of something
that could have been.
I see nothing.
Know nothing I am.
Nothing.

May 5, 1999

Poetry