THE NIHILIST

I believe in nothing - I simply just exist,
they even said that I must be an existentialist,
My wife is a catholic, believes in most things,
an ambivalent dichotomy is just what this debate brings.

However, I believe in death but won't go to hell,
heaven is out of the question but who can tell?
I believe in myself, anything else is fatuous,
disregard if I am perceived as an ageing incubus.

Am I missing something - has my judgement been clouded
by Sartre's nonsense? Of course not - I must be right,
I must have cracked the secrets of this 'nothing' life,
I must have unlocked the mysteries of all time - wonderful.

Nevertheless, there is a chink in my armour, a crack,
when I look in the mirror, there's someone else looking back.