Marc Carver’s most recent poem to appear here was Noughts and Crosses (March 2013).
Something From Nothing
By Marc Carver
I watch people as they become members of clubs. I watch as they ask others questions. As they spend time. They can’t sit still they have to do things. Go to work, go to the gym anything to stop them doing anything important in life.
The trouble is they believe. They really believe in what they are doing. Maybe I have it wrong. Perhaps they just don’t want to be lonely. Nobody ringing their phone nobody sending them emails nobody inviting them to this place or that. They want to be doing not thinking not creating. But if they stopped and thought the only possible outcome of life is death what would they do then? Go shopping send emails go and be with people who would die just like them? Or would they say I want to be remembered for something a great poem or a painting? So others could see what life is really about. Even making lots of babies would do. Something from nothing.
This poems captures something that is very true indeed.