Event Horizon

I am sure I heard someone say
that to leave the universe altogether
might be a remarkably uneventful experience.

You do it
without noticing a thing.

And here I am
having strayed beyond the event horizon;
I am out of my depth, drawn in,
no strength left to swim, and
nowhere else to go
but down.

It's a line you cross,
the boundary between orbit and freefall. You do it
without noticing a thing; and for me
the standard formulae have all ceased to work
however hard I try to go on trusting.

It seems
I have been taken beyond the point of balance
into a new and scary singularity.
There is no light in this place.

But perhaps it still can be the way
through which I shall be brought to light.