All or nothing

Expect nothing.
Want nothing.
Feel nothing.

Then nothing can disappoint you,
nothing can leave you broken,
nothing can take away
what you never allowed yourself to need.

No hope to lose.
No love to miss.
No dreams to watch fall apart.

It is peaceful.

Until the days begin to blur,
the colours fade at the edges,
and silence starts to feel
less like calm
and more like absence.

Nothing hurts.

And nothing reaches you.

And somewhere in all that safety,
the world becomes very quiet.