🕳️ Black Hole Framing

by Casey Aimer

I sailed into an event horizon and
domesticated the apathy inside me.

Here physical laws have broken
down and so have I. Emotional
detachment stays at arm’s length
as I embrace myself, disconnect
from reality and contemplate.

The human equivalent of numbing
cream smeared across neurons, I
drifted for years a self-made void.

To be forgotten like torn remnants
of a star system, I titled emptiness
an absence of pain as if somehow
it was the same value as healing.

I was always my own light
that couldn’t escape itself
but still tried.

Nothing except myself affects me
in this black hole. Unending time
reflects my particles into infinity
and I write myself as singularity.

Now watch me radiate into poems
probing paths taken and imagined,
scraps of DNA diffused into verse—