February 8, 2020Poem

Hold the clock

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Hold the clock

Stop the world

If I step off

What will I see

What mischief

Will be waiting

There are no turtles

Swimming in sorrow

For their lost burden

Searching for a shoreline

As proof of redundancy

Nothing is a concept

Without experience

Fill the void

With meaning

It will eat me up

Trying to explain

What creation looks like

On the outside

Looking in

Finding is not easy

When nothing can be found

There are no short answers

Even long answers are in short supply

No one knows

What to do

Tomorrow

When the earth stands still

Do we fall off

And if we do

How deep is the fall

Where will we land

What do we become

In a black hole

When ‘nothing’

Is an anomalous construct

We can never know