The Existential Nothing

• Laila Zakelj, Grade 9, Oak Flats High School
• Poetry
• 2022

Excellence Award in the 'Unleashed 2022' competition

What is living if it's not even true?
Moments and memories have no allure,
Flashes of insanity in my view,
Feelings and beliefs that no help can cure.

Silent yet loud, her thoughts consume her whole,
Nobody understands her compulsion,
She's in the pit of life's deep, empty bowl,
Both weird but 'common' is her great notion.

A serious trouble she dreams to lose,
But losing, her complex mind will refuse.