Gravity
Don’t let your eyes be fooled.
It doesn’t pull.
It warps,
like a weight on a trampoline,
and things roll down the slope.
So strong in great masses,
it can bend light,
twist it,
making straight lines into curved ones,
and making two stars from one.
A great star collapses.
So much pressure.
Big squeeze,
crushing matter to a mere point.
Even light cannot escape.
An event horizon
spreads out in space.
No mass,
but a massive, sinister well.
So light comes here to die.
It looks like supreme might,
but it’s too feeble.
So weak
when compared with magnetism,
by a power of billions.
Weak things look like strong ones.
But sight isn’t truth.
Look close.
It slips to another dimension,
and you do not see it.
--Jesse Manley 2004