How do you write a black hole ?
How do you draw it, in words?
~
I cannot write about it
I keep failing
I can only get close to it, drawing.
Black ink & charcoal
on crisp white paper.
But, the words…
[oh, no]
I get trapped in clichés
Is this black hole really black ?
Is it a hole ?
Does it drag me down ? Or up ?
.
I need this poem.
And yet
I suspect it is all fake.
.
The hole
is the expected unfolding to this drama.
Its desired [anti]climax.
Draw it, I try. But…
I keep failing to describe it.
I need angles
Black inky staccatos
Teeth
Caves & tunnels.
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The words,
fail me.
This is how the hole looks like, I tell myself.
But this is not how it feels.
.