\
Aphelion Issue 300, Volume 28
November 2024--
 
Editorial    
Long Fiction and Serials
Short Stories
Flash Fiction
Poetry
Features
Series
Archives
Submission Guidelines
Contact Us
Forum
Flash Writing Challenge
Forum
Dan's Promo Page
   

Nothingness

by Kenneth Vincent Walker


As a mad scientist persists
I delve into my work, my gift
And drift off into bliss half-
Awake and half-pissed. As

The sun rises or sets I have
No regrets and no regard for
The yards of paper and ink
That I collect to project my

Thoughts, before all who care
To listen, as I reflect on past
And future events surgically,
Meticulously inventing a new

Reality fermented and thus;
Cemented with Intent of the
Eternal as this world spins so
Boldly, woefully uncontrolled.

Out of my comfort zone, out
Of my flesh and bone to the
Tone deaf and dumb, all the
Little creatures on the run

So self-absorbed, oblivious
To how extremely short our
Time on this sphere truly is
As we fizz and evaporate

Possibly into nothingness.


© 2022 Kenneth Vincent Walker

Find more by Kenneth Vincent Walker in the Author Index.

Comment on this story in the Aphelion Forum

Return to Aphelion's Index page.