My Black Hole Soliloquy

Why can’t I keep
my thoughts in focus?

They briefly flash
then vanish
before I lock on

None can escape
the gravitational abyss
known as the
black hole of my mind

——

Image credit: Photographing a Black Hole, from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al, published by NASA, April 13, 2021. This stunning image shows the shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87), an elliptical galaxy some 55 million light-years from Earth. This black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun. Catching its shadow involved eight ground-based radio telescopes around the globe, operating together as if they were one telescope the size of our entire planet.

Linked to dVerse Poets Pub — Meeting the Bar: Soliloquy, where Grace is hosting (with assistance from Victoria), and has asked us to pen a soliloquy poem (a form of speech spoken aloud by a character but addressed to no one except his or her self).

Linked to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Short Verse Part 4, where she challenged us to write a 31-word poem using the paint chip black hole.

More soliloquy.