Earthbound Star

An artist's drawing of a black hole named Cygnus X-1. It formed when a large star caved in. This black hole pulls matter from the blue star beside it.  Credits: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

Earthbound Star

She is clearly all those things and more:
implacable, mysterious, indifferent and
most certainly the power of the universe
in her endless creative capacity involved
in her boundless creations unmoved by
the results yet fixated on the process and
her closely held secrets. Is it a sense of
superior wisdom or that of cynical mischief
that leads her on those rare occasions to endow
a frail creature of her ineffable blueprint
with a capacious, efficient brain capable
of monumental hypotheses unlocking her
secrets one by one and placing that mind
within the most frail of failing carapaces?
Hers is the dominion and to her falls the
glory as the universe sits at her feet and
unfolds as she has instructed it must. Her
creations, devoted to her design, helpless
to deviate exist as they do for her pleasure
in observing what she has wrought while
now and again crooking a finger of teasing
invitation to a mind unleashed owning
thoughts and expressions revealing her
black magic through gaping spaces of
immense presence yet unseen to open a
maw to the desolation of destruction while
her experiment cycles and recycles itself
endlessly, sans beginning, sans end.