Endlessness.
That line of horizon
stretching from each
end of visible time,
one leg in the past,
one leg in the future,
trapping me inside
its ageless beating heart.
Put forever in a cage
and it rusts the bars,
put forever under a
mountain and it
carves a canyon.
The end of infinity
is so intoxicatingly
nonexistent its absence
is in the air we breathe,
in all our corners and
closets and drawers,
an emptiness only
emptiness can fill,
a silence only silence
can understand.
Lurking in our music
and our math
and our poetry –
we are endless,
the end beating
somewhere so
deep inside of
us that, thankfully,
we will never, ever
be able to reach it.
mywordpool 
“…emptiness only emptiness can fill?” Where do you find these words? This is remarkable!
And, btw, yessss, I was the first “like” and the first comment. I am not competitive, of course…
Words? Oh, they find me 😉 Thanks Marya. I couldn’t ask for a better first reader!
I second Marya’s comment. “emptiness that only emptiness can fill” what an amazing phrase. I love the title too. I love it all. A beautiful and provocative work, Natalie.
Thank you, Eric 🙂
Absolutely loved this! I just keep on reading it over and over and find new phrases and words that I love. Great Job!
This was just the loveliest thing to say. Thank you so much! 🙂
“Put forever in a cage
and it rusts the bars” God. This makes my heart echo. Very good.
“That makes my heart echo”. I think I just melted. Thanks for always sending the sound back, Alice.
Keep sending out the sounds.
I like the emptiness also, but actually like the silence lines better. Great work!
Thanks! 🙂 Emptiness and silence… who can get enough of it?
Oh this is so powerful! I heard the echoes of the endless reverberating in the spaces between your words.
And somewhere in my head I thought of another endless poem which would be written on a piece of paper looped back on itself, so that the poem just continues on and on as you read down the ring of paper in your hand…
What a lovely image… I could read a never-ending poem. I think I do. Thank you so much.