Stephen is a web developer, Bahá'í, and interfaith activist in St. Paul, Minnesota. He likes to write about religion, social justice, sustainability, science, programming, &c.

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poetry, prose, and other strings of words · 1993 - 2003

Emptiness

Number 147

October 18, 2000

Sitting.
Bothered. Staring.
Screen glows cold back at me,
The phosphor aura—like my life.

I stand, sit, whatever;
In my periphery a slow whirlwind
Moves in.

Turbulent, undulating,
Tsunamis of memory overwhelming
This puny form.
With cryptic bits of thought and feeling.

Swirling—
           Swirling—
Swirling—
Nothing makes sense, of a sudden,
In my lost little world.

The fullest emptiness is loneliness