That’s right. Say it
out loud, now, with me.
“Nothing matters.”
And, of course, you know
that the reverse is equally true:
Everything matters.
 
So, what’s a person to do
with the best of intentions
trying merely to be kind,
living in a fashion free
from the vagaries of life’s
sticks and stones?
 
Listen! You know.
Let go, because, really
nothing matters.
And, of course, you know, too,
when you can do that, it is exactly
because everything you do matters.

 
© by Arlene Gay Levine.
Used with the author’s permission.