Re(dis)covery

2025:

An unseen foe

gravity greater than my own

Not with intent but with despair

Slowly slipping up the stair

Feet falling into cadence

Just once (again) going nowhere

I knew the dance to avoid the pull

but gravity played me for a fool.

As light warps and resists at the entity's edge-

To my own heart, a whispered pledge

Just for today,

I will walk a new way.

Not with fanfare but solemnity

and quiet peace.

Deep roots germinate and grow stronger

Circling the event horizon no longer.