like nothing at all

There’s a light inside my room

That never shines or fades away

A glass half-full of absence

A chair that learned to stay

Watching days go drifting by

Without asking what they mean

I’m not waiting for an answer

Or a sign against the glass

If God ever left a footprint

Morning covered up the tracks

And deep down in everything

There’s no secret underneath

I walk because I’m walking

Not to get somewhere someday

I laugh because the darkness

Knows how to keep me safe

And if the world forgets my name

I won’t curse it when it goes

I’m only just a shadow

Talking softly to the cold

Everything is heavy

But somehow it can float

Everything is burning

But it never turns to smoke

Hope is just a jacket

That doesn’t fit me anymore

I take it off slowly

Fold it on the floor

And I stand before the air

Like nothing at all

Like nothing at all

Like nothing at all

A flower in the desert

Doesn’t ask what it is for

It opens up its body

To a sky of static noise

Maybe that is living

A useless, beautiful move

Against the dust repeating

What the dust was born to do

Don’t save me from this hollow

Don’t explain the morning light

I have learned that every echo

Is a voice that gets too tired

But I still sing under my breath

Out of habit, out of fear

Because even in the empty

Something shakes when I am here

Everything is heavy

But somehow it can float

Everything is burning

But it never turns to smoke

Hope is just a jacket

That doesn’t fit me anymore

I take it off slowly

Fold it on the floor

And I stand before the air

Like nothing at all

Like nothing at all

Like nothing at all

And in the end there is no ending

No punishment, no grace

Just a man who keeps on breathing

Underneath a piece of space

No victory, no failure

No promise and no wound

Just the absurd kind of dignity

Of still being in the room

Everything is heavy

But somehow it can float

Everything is burning

But it never turns to smoke

Hope is just a jacket

That doesn’t fit me anymore

I take it off slowly

Fold it on the floor

And I stand before the air

Like nothing at all

Like nothing at all

Like nothing at all

Still here after all

Still here after all

Like nothing at all

Like nothing at all