Holy Shit! Oblivion.

A spontaneous response.

Denise Darby
2 min readAug 26, 2022

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Photo taken by author. Summer 2022.

“That obsession to feel important As all our life is a struggle to fight our oblivion………” Monoreena

Is this true?
Is this true, my friend?
It has struck some kind of chord in me and I ask,
“Is this true?”

I ask me, not you.
You have so wisely reached this truth within
And can steadfastly, honestly admit — honor
Rejoice

I take pause — long
Slow sinking, bouncing around in the hollow
Dumbstruck

How absurd are we?
To think that we matter
And to know that we do and we don’t
The paradox — the gut wrench, mundane — paradox

We dig around and search
Inward and out
To find something, someone to bounce our shit against
A wall, a way, a reason to throw dirt at and say — what -
Say what? See? See me — but it only separates — divides
Conquers, until we are on top — on top of an empty hill — alone

“That’s Life for you…

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