To Be Complete

By Tyler Noletti

Featured art: Broken Column, Parthenon by Lockwood de Forest

To hear the words preached,

To heed the counsel given,

To listen to what is said

May be harder than finding the meaning.

Wisdom is often lost with the weak,

And wasted on the strong.

In lives pushing for completion,

We want to be fulfilled.

But if we only died when complete,

We’d truly live forever.

There is nothing but room,

Room to evolve and change

And become something far from whole.

Be free, then, of the burdens

And embrace this emptiness.

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Tyler Noletti (he/him) is a metalhead construction worker who lives with his wife and daughter in Zanesville, Ohio. He enjoys extreme music and emotional writing. He's going to keep writing music and stories forever.