Where is the edge of your world?

Where is the edge of your world?
Has it receded so far in your distant past
That it swims in memories of childhood,
Blurred with mariners' tales long outgrown?

Do you miss it, like the boundary
That separated your good from evil?
When you finally refused conscience
Did your past sink neath the horizon?

Standing a wave, a man preached rebirth
And you hoped it meant reliving
The only time in your life you were
The least bit responsible to anyone else.

But, you've been bedeviled it's not that.
Sure, you can go back, but you're not the one
Who left that world anymore than the exile
From a cannibal feast is the one who was eaten.

You've been so chewed up by this new world
That no Gulf Stream Current will return
You to the safety of the old world shores:
You've descended the inescapable precipice.

Let no one falling here retain hope
For the edge of your world, once passed,
Is distinct as the event horizon
That drops star matter to singularity.

Where was the edge of your world?
Do you even know when you crossed?
Did you feel the fall, the empty guttering,
Or were you busy rigging the sales?

LMC July 4, 2009