Black Hole
I Need A Seamstress

I need a seamstress…
One to put a stitch in time.
Eight months, three weeks, 2 days, four hours ago
A gaping hole was torn in the fabric of reality.
A black hole spinning in time and space
Filled only with despair.
A black hole of regret creating a gravity well
So powerful its pull is irresistible.
Every night when I drift off
After hours of tossing, turning,.. wishing
My mind drifts back toward the event horizon;
My very essence sucked in
By the overarching vastness of your memory.
I am helpless in the face of its power.
Each time I approach the edge,
Gasping, flailing, fighting the pull
Trying to breathe in the frozen vacuum
Of the void you left behind…
I see your face …
My heart, too weak to resist,
Yearns only to pass through…
To dive into the wormhole
And see where it will take me…
Yet, just as I reach the edge of the abyss,
Just when my reaching hand seems about to pass over
I awaken … Only to find the void still empty…
Empty of laughter, light, love, reason, purpose.
Those were the things you provided me.
Your presence my very life sustaining oxygen…
When you departed this plane
You rent a hole in the fabric of my reality;
An abyss into which I am eternally falling.
So, Fates, please … send a seamstress…
One to put a stitch in time.
Eight months, three weeks, 2 days, four hours ago…
One to sew shut the hole in my soul…
A stitch in time to save mine
About the Creator
Andrew C McDonald
Andrew McDonald was a 911 dispatcher for 30 yrs with a B.S. in Math (1985). He served as an Army officer 1985 to 1992, honorably exiting a captain.
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Comments (4)
This is the dark reality of loss that doesn't have rest days. It is hard! I hope that writing about it offers some relief. Sincere honouring of your sharing. *Huge feels*
Oh my, the struggle and helplessness was so palpable! Loved your poem!
This was beautiful, Andrew!
This a great concept that you have woven very Whovian