Stereometric

I – Cuboid

I may not have a fear

Of bird’s eye heights

And dark cold nights

But deep down, under 

My eyelashes, highlights 

On my cheeks,

Lies trembling phobia

Of shapes.

 

Not ones which when in school

The children learn to draw on paper.

Not those that are constructed 

By architects in three dimensions 

But one that wrenches out my brain.

 

An infinite lone lattice,

Quaternion that stretches 

Beyond the comprehension of my 

Self. Secluded somewhere

In the space between my cells.

I’m scared to die in there

All by myself.

 

II – Singularity

I often think it’s quite redundant 

For human beings to dwell on

The fact of their eventual demise, but

I’ve got to give the credit where it’s due – 

The science of how our life will end

Is truly unpredictable, it always is

Until the biggest mental leap.

 

My heart goes out to those who wish to quit

But me, I certainly despise the speed

With which most wish to leave.

To me, the process of the end should equal

The fullness of my life, the things I managed 

To get done. A lot of elegance,

A spacious single vanity

Like being thrown into the singularity.

 

Thanks to Stephen Hawking, 

Humans may now know the theory of shocking

Elements of universe – black holes.

I certainly would like to die in one of those.

Spaghettified, made into a sinusoidal graph

But in no where and in no time

And be expelled from the other side – 

A white hole – as bunches of my atoms

That will not make another me

Again.