A Path To Nothing

• Jackson Bugg, Grade 11, Christian Brothers College - Senior School
• Poetry
• 2022

Excellence Award in the 'Unleashed 2022' competition

A path to nothing

Two roads diverged in a modern society, and we all took the one to nothing, the one more travelled.
We live on a pathway that we must keep to
A cycle of the same thing, the same thing, the same thing
For what?
A few coins, some paper.
Humans aren’t here for this, we don’t survive, neither do we live.
Life isn’t about survival; it is about our tedious path to nothing.
We are blind to this mundane system but yet continue to fuel the fire;
fuel the burning and destruction of our freedom.
It is a system we have created, and a system we let dictate our lives.
Who is really in charge? Us? Or the system?
Name one species like us.
Buy things? Work for things?
Spend their whole life for a temporary high.
In the end, what have we achieved?