Free

We emptied

Our heads of

Memories, dreams,

And aspirations

To make room

For things

A bit more palpable,

And days went by

In long spells

With infrequent bursts

Of newness

As we blinked

The nights away

Wrapped in the very

Burden of being nothing

And everything

All at once.

©Aaysid

“I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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