Nothing To Do

When you have nothing to do,

What do you really do?

From the moment we can crawl,

There isn’t really anytime in which we won’t do anything.

Nothing means a different something to all of us.

“Nothing” to my younger self is what you said when you didn’t want to tell mom and dad what mischief you were getting into.

“Nothing” meant spinning around as fast as we could until my brother and I fell down in laughter.

When we had nothing to do during the holidays,

We would make up miniature plays and perform them for our parents.

Sometimes “nothing to do” really meant nobody to play with.

Making pillow and blanket forts so we could become secret explorers,

And jumping off of my top bunk bed onto Seth’s bed down below.

If “nothing” really meant nothing,

Then what would be the meaning of anything?

“What are you doing?”

“Nothing.”

Are you not breathing, thinking, talking, and dreaming everyday of your life?

To do nothing would really be something.

Even the act of doing nothing is doing something.

Just think about that for a moment.

Oh look, you’re doing something again!

You are thinking.

Now, you are wondering what I’m doing with this poem.

I’m doing nothing.

But wait, no I’m not.

I’m doing everything.

What I’m doing with this poem is telling you to do something, anything,

As long as it is nothing but amazing.

~ S. Rae