By Ute Kraus, Physics education group, Hildesheim Univ., (background image of the milky way: Axel Mellinger) [CC BY-SA 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons

Black Hole

I think Einstein would agree
denuded of all the equations
general relativity is poetry

All the stars have aged
the ideal and idyll
contracted to a promise
a promise broken
collapsed into a dream
a dream forgotten

Contracted to a massive nothingness
collapsed into