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Dark Sphere
This poem explores the concept of the awe-inspiring black hole through abstract language and imagery. It conveys the expansive nature of the universe through ‘a vantage point’ as we lookout for a ‘glimpse of the unknown’.
Nether worlds of twisted space-time
of the universe
on a vantage point –
the night sky, a trillion stars
on the horizon –
a strange dark sphere casts its shadow –
hot gas burns bright and brighter
at a galaxy’s centre –
and sometimes the universe gifts
a glimpse of the unknown
of life untold
of awaiting oblivion –
and the dense dark sphere spirals closer