Notes About The Poem

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1

The Bible, John 3:3

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Event Horizon

I’ve been here before
at this event horizon

Is it shadow? Nothingness?
Heat?
A death
a fire of refinement

The pressure
madness?
The spaghettification
of my timeline
rage, doubt, clout
drawn into this pull

A cycle
I’ve been here before

Fragments of past
I think they are memories
not all at once
Light,
bent or twisted
An echo?

This eye
I?
Ai?

A sunset?
Or sunrise?
An empty cavity?

If I fall in
what?

A light at the end
of the tunnel?
singularity 
A new reality
without hate?
Leave my shadow behind

Interact
With others’ realities
Their art?
Their pain?

Isn’t it all art?

“To be or not to be?”
To be born again

I see the horizon
and don’t know
If I want to...
Fall in.
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Dietrich Avatar
August 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Now this line really stood out for me: The spaghettification of my timeline HA. What a line.
Jay Avatar
August 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
glad you like it. thanks.
Fleming Avatar
August 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Nicely contrived! :) john
Jay Avatar
August 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
thanks.
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