After All, It Is Nothing Poem by RIC BASTASA

when others quit
you keep on going

they are not your
reasons

you are the reason
why you keep on going

& doing & the reason
is not really the reason

it is the emotion
that runs like a river

without a dam
rushing to the place

of its ending
where it is no longer a river

where you are not you
anymore

you belong to everywhere
and to everything

i.e. 'that is' the reason
the emotion that goes on and on and on

like bunny energized
it does not stop

it does not have that power
it goes on and on and on

until it is no longer itself
but the sea

until it is no longer the sea
but space

until it is no longer space
because

after all, it is nothing


i am
nothing.