QUOTE : After You Left <br /><br />the weight of your absence <br />became a black hole revolving <br />around my memory of you--itself <br />a black hole. Wavelets wrinkled<br />the sheer sheet of space and time.<br />Father, the loss of you is a planet<br />orbiting what might have been.<br />I cannot say if the emptiness is <br />a grand celestial body or a vacuum<br />so complete nothing can escape. I know<br />these forces have mass and motion<br />that bends, calls in, ripples fabric--<br />distorts the pace of light<br />for a billion years.