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Black Holes are Deep

One day I tripped and fell
Into the gravitational pull
Of a black hole
And now I fear I am doomed.

What’s funny is
It’s not even black.
It’s the absence of black.
As if that detail will save me.

I drift closer each thought.
I should have lived a dream.
I should have accepted the surprise baptism.
I should have dressed for this.

I never went to see the modern wonders
And returned to tell friends and family.
I was never mortally offended,
Was never moved to great social action.

And now I am naught
In a space of dense…well…space
Instead, I will merely say farewell
As mind leaves corporal machine.

Holy Hades!

Why do you push it up the hill
The boulder of your sin?
It only rolls right back again
And again you must begin.
Your hands must be all callouses
Your shoulders bent and raw.
You have eternity to figure it out
So why even start at all?

Why do you reach for sustenance
When the branch runs away
And the water recedes eternally
Like a fated flighty doxy?
Hasn’t the acid eaten
Through your stomach by now?
Aren’t you just stuck eating
What in life you did sow.

Infallible

When I die
Do I want to be right?
Or do I want
In my heart
To risk forever?

That a god could forgive
My obstinance,
My doubt,
And bring me in
Where I would face
The smiling faces
Of those who wish
Their god was slightly more vengeful
After all.

After all
I know those faces.
As a girl I met the holy.
I remember the devout.
Damming me,
Pitying me,
Wishing to save me.
Do I want to be with them
Forever?

Or be stuck worse off?
Justified in my logic
That at least the devil
Is as evil as he was supposed to be.
And I unwilling to accept
A god that is not.

But suppose I’m right
And destined for dust.
My only prayer
Is that the earth cannot ponder
On right and forever.
That is the compensation
I ask for having lived.