After All

After All

There’s no emptiness in space, only within humanity

An emotion of suffering, happily admitting no mercy

That human reaching for momentary happiness

Finding only regret and unearned guilt

Yet what’s the alternative to invisible suffering?

That conflict within, mind versus emotion

I cover my face in the swirling reality

The panic that rises, once the downside sets in

See again and again, and then to reconcile within

This psyche that allows emotion, feeling and mind differences

Beware the nihilism that lurks ready

It wins often and seeks me as a victim

But I deny it and it subsides like the coward it hides

For it seeks only the frail and the lonely

And the end’s “oh what’s the use”

Remember that “I’m the use” and you’re never obtuse