In the poem there is a metaphysical aspect regarding the beginning of everything.  Quantum physics says that matter can spontaneously appear out of a vacuum, as if nothingness is something.  While the duality of the poem seeks to portray a message that is relatable to the desperation of feeling you have nothing but potential… and yet the emptiness of everything as in knowing nothing.  There is a thought of preconception, when we are nothing but potential, but at the end of our life we have everything we will ever have but it will not be enough, because we know nothing or more precisely we understand the emptiness of everything.  In the end all that will matter to us is the people that we’ve loved and who loved us.  

Nothing

Nothing screams into the night
Of desire and possibilities
For nothing is potential

While everything cries at night
About missed possibilities
For everything knows nothing