Poetry · By Tommy Bielskis · 1 min read · May 12, 2026

Nothing

A spare ontological meditation on being and nonbeing, testing whether emptiness is truly absence or the open condition from which experience appears.

embodiment

There's being and not being.

Being is love, creativity, curiosity,
Movement, touch,
Truth, growth, beauty,
etc.

Being is life.
Not being is nothing.

Repetition of nothing is nothing.
Optimized nothing is nothing.
Automated nothing is nothing.

Consuming a lot of nothing is nothing.
Producing a lot of nothing is nothing.
A billion of nothing is still nothing.

Don't choose nothing.