Poem Of The Month: April 2014

THE BLACK HOLE POEM

For Stephen Hawkins

1.

This is the theory of everything.

Life begins like a poem.

‘The source, eternity is darkness within darkness,’

The Tao Te Ching

A letter of light comes from negativity

And the universal poem is formed

Radiating light from dark

And love from hate.

2.

I woke from the darkness of a bad dream.

Why was I witnessing such darkness?

It was like a cancer or a plague.

I was afraid to go back to sleep

I lay there listening to the rain thinking

Maybe this went further back?

To Dostoyevsky or Van Gogh’s time

Maybe time is timeless?

Its as if it was present at the grapes of wrath

Or in a Francis Bacon look

It feels as if I’m in the short story called ‘Grief’

By Anton Chekov or on the island

Of Liam O’Flaherty’s black soul.

I’m listening to the crash of thunder

like world war one or Adolf Hitler’s name.

Maybe this is as Nietzche said

‘I’ll turn this muck to gold.’

This is the shadow of my event horizon.

Black Hole by Petr Kratochvil

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