Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Quiet Kingdom

Once upon a time, there was no kingdom ruled by a nothing king.

You

You were walking along and

You were walking along and thought about hitching a ride on the next wagon when

You were walking along and thought about hitching a ride on the next wagon when you looked up and you saw

You saw

You saw the sky.

Not the sky. The No Sky. The Nothing Sky. It wasn't white or black. It wasn't any color, for what color was nothing? It was nothing at all and it spread out as far as the eye could see and farther, for can the eye see nothing?

You looked up and saw nothing at all. And then it fell, the sky, the No Sky, was falling all around you and everything was turning into nothing.

You reached out your hand and it was gone. Like it had never existed.

You wished for one more hour, one more minute, one more second, but you knew there were no more left. No more minutes, no more stars, no more wishes. There was only nothing left.

Only nothing left.

Only nothing.

Nothing.

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