Occasionally, I like to write a creative piece at Hip Diggs. If you’ve been over to my personal blog at www.danerickson.net, you know I write fiction, poetry, and music. Today’s post is a poem contemplating two extremes: Nothing Or Everything?
Nothing Or Everything
One wish with the flip of a coin:
Nothing or everything?
Which would you choose?
Heads you win.
Tails you lose.
The minimalist’s goal is to die
with nothing, empty of all
material belongings:
Nothing.
But what of your soul?
Where does it go?
Into the great abyss?
Or does heaven wait for those
who practice deprivation?
Perhaps, the ones who let everything go
will receive the same:
Everything.
Nothing or everything?
I will not choose.
For these are simply two sides
to the same coin.
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