Feb 18, 2013 Uncategorized

Event Horizon -- A Poem
© By Vijaya Sundaram
April 27th, 2012

Forever circling, forever spinning
Closer and closer to the core
Seemingly for an eternity, like a golf ball
Into a vortex built for it in a Children’s Museum,
I dance towards the center.
I know the wider circles will narrow
Into an infinitesimally
Small one, and finally
I will drop into that other world
That other universe waiting for me,
The shadow world
Of visions unseen, and nightmares unimagined.
Is it down, though?
Or is it just beyond?
Time stretches into the far reaches
Of space, condenses into a black hole.
And I circle, circle, circle
Well past the event horizon,
And no light escapes.

This is what my life seems here,
Spinning, plunging forward towards the core,
Always spinning, spinning, spinning.
I watch myself from the other side,
The far side of the event horizon.
And I appear to shift and slow down.
Within, I continue just as I always did.
Without, old age chains my ankles, and I feel so slow,
Within, I speed up, a child heedlessly
Racing towards non-being.
Without, I send out cries of light to that other side, where
My old self watches, helpless, while I pitch headlong towards,
But never quite reaching, that heart of death.
My cries do not pass through.
I move in opposite directions,
Watch from two places:  One towards,
And one away from that final plunge.
Eventually, I know I’ll circle, and tumble into
A world beyond that pinpoint of darkness.
Will it all be flat there?
No concentric circles, no Schwarzchild radius
To grab at my ankles?
Or will it always be circles
Within circles, within circles,
Within which the spinning top
Of selfhood disintegrates into atoms
Torn apart by invisible hands?
And as I dance inexorably towards this question,
I see something new
Forming out of that dense, closely-pressed space:
Light radiates from the particles,
Re-forms from those atoms
Into another being, frees itself
From ankle-chains, and escapes.

Tags: #Death, #Original Poetry, #Rebirth, Black Hole, Event Horizon, Red Shift, Schwarzchild Radius