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Nothing much

I’ve erased every word I’ve written. You don’t believe me?
All the letters piled up like so much firewood and ended up
making a great display of nothingness. It’s almost like
dreamless sleep - not much to be said, really.
This is just ashes; theater make-up for a featureless face,
momentary nostalgia like an obituary in the local paper.
But don’t think I don’t care. I care. Every word I never said
was meant to convey my affection. I wrote it all down at some point.
I don’t remember when, or where it was, but I’m sure the future is
contained in those misplaced notebooks, just like the past
has imploded into this.
I realize I lied – I have no misplaced notebooks, I haven’t erased
anything that was worth keeping. Can you keep the secret?
From yourself?

Who could write so much and so well about nothing, but Taigaku ? I love your playful, yet quite serious images, perspectives, and changes .

~ Elizabeth

Hi Taigaku~
Up is down, inside out, back is front, past is now etc. etc....
Written on/in the heart.... I love it!

Love,
Makera

Thank you

Kind of a post-modern approach to the same old eternal topics.
Or something like it..

~Taigaku

Thanks for saying what I meant, better, by "perspectives, and changes," Makera. That's what I was getting it, but just didn't quite get there, explicitly. Yours says it better .

~ Lizzy

Nah! Not "better", Liz, just differently. You captured it very accurately - "..and changes"...Like the I Ching, Book of Changes. I knew what you meant, you just inspired my comment - see?

~Makera