It's like a pit (a massive gap in the thoughts that unsettles you)
and (lest your resolve be crushed to a fine powder suitable only for the most tasteful framing) saturates conversation like a virus
but there's a problem with this invitation, if only to
convince yourself the gap is useful, (that it's a landmark of sorts, a real treasure, why not picnic next to it, make up stories and holidays and marvel at the obvious ingenuity of the earth in creating such a beautiful loss)
at the end of the festival, (when the streamers have faded and the food lies stale, when the cars have herded their people home for the night and the moon reclaims her sky from clingy weathermen)