the endless nothingness
mocks each feeble attempt
at seeking meaning
dour skies of illusion
a refraction of radiation
through captive droplets
a corruption of color
disguising the vast
emptiness of creation
billions of blinking souls
no closer than the stars
to one another’s orbit
drifting aimless and alone
searching for purpose
in green screen projections
computer generated happiness
in a sphere of uncertainty
drowning in the emptiness
always hovering piteously
just out of the feeble grasp
where dream separates itself
from the frozen gaze of
eternal discombobulation
the yawning maw of hope
hides sharpened incisors
hungering only to consume