After a long hard nothing
Into something
I have become someone
Extremely familiar
To myself
I must be true
Because, because
This journey
This odyssey
This long, long sequence
Of events
This outrageous collection
Of incidents and occurrences
Begs for meaning
And validation
And who else
Who other
Than the instigator
The actor
The inhabitant
The perpetrator
Who better
To strive
To find
To define
To mould
Some kind of sensical
Credible
Enriching
Uplifting
Form
Story
Historic recounting
Present portraying
Future formulating
Who better
Than self
To do that
Feels like
What I should do
At this point
In the evolution
Of another everyman
A unique genetic and circumstantial
Concoction
Have I not struggled
Most of my life
In one way or another
To make it here
Is that not something
Worth breath
And voice
And exploration
And extrapolation
Isn't now the time
The only time
There is
If I have thought it
And I write it
Will it not be true
For true
Is what I seek
And salvation
And liberation
And to be understood
Or not
But at least
To know in my heart
That all the love
I have known and shared
Has not been for nought
All the tears cried
And the blood split
And the hells faced
Not for nought
For something
From nothing
Is something
And that something
Is a life
A life worth acknowledging
Honouring
Humbly considering
As valuable
With value
Of value
Value
Just another word
Yes
But for the poet
Words
Have meaning
Tremendous
Words can change
Words can transcend
The tyranny of suffering in silence
Words can connect
Connect with other souls
Your soul
This is a poem about you
About you, too
We are talking about
Just how beautiful
You are
You are
Eternal
All of us
Quite the same
In that regard
Let's laugh!
And laugh
And fall in a heap
And forget
Our worries
Just for a while
Let's do that
Let's do that
And call it poetry
Call it living
Because it is
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