I like my nothingness

At midnight I crawl into my cold bed

And feel the joy of becoming nothing

Between the cotton sheets,

I warm a spot and disappear in the universe of the tiny

Then I don’t have any attributes

Then I’m no longer a sinner, a lover, a mortal

For an instant I’m gone

And I feel the happiness of not being.

Carlos Ponce-Meléndez poems have appeared in The Dreamcatcher, The Poet, Voices Along the River, Desahogate, Small Brushes, The Texas Observer, El Angel, Celebrate! Poets Speak Out, among other publications.