When light stands still
and sound hangs
motionless
gravity lets go
and thought is locked
in a synaptic flash
Past and present
collapse into nothing
obliterating the present
Memory is a frozen impulse
and all existence dissolves
Time’s elastic memory fails
and opposing black holes
reach critical balance
less than a micron
from tipping point
Fanciful visions
cannot suggest
with arcs and beams
scraped across
a black mantle
the true menace of
phenomena
the nuance of planetary shift
or barbarism of
annihilating wreck
Neither haughty mind
nor megachip
can so much as
imagine
a device that would reveal
the true meaning
of meaninglessness
though often
we imagine we have