Omega

(for my friend Wolfgang, the astronomer)

In his last months,
your father seemed to drift
away, the mysteries of brain
shutting down, neuron by neuron,
misfires of synapses,
the self fading out.
Even the scientist loses
his father in the same way
as the rest of us,
calling up that emptiness
black and cold as the universe.
The same thoughts arise
as we ponder the singularity,
the hard questions tumbling over in the heart.
For we know even galaxies end,
spinning off into black holes,
spewing their demise,
stars turning off, one by one,
matter into energy into matter.
I see you peering up
at a new night sky,
Pacific waves lapping
the certainty of doom,
the ambiguity of time. 
 
*Singularity: a moment when space or space-time suffers a devastating rupture or an anomaly in space-time like the Big Bang theory beginning of time.


c2005 Cassandra Robison

"Abandonment Series Object 2" by Scott Odom