Youll Never Come Back

("Nonbinary", 2023, original encaustic) You’ll Never Come Back… Thrown into an ocean Deeper and vaster than thought Carried on waves of sound Waves of light Propelled on waves of bliss Through a portal That has no name No place No time But here and now Washed up on a shore After the storm Bathed in warmth Exhausted of all content Left alone At the heart of it all Connected to it all Without a doubt Someone whispers Somewhere Just beyond sight “You’ll never come back” And in an instant I am thrown into doubt Back to what!? To this timeless place Or what I left behind? And then in the next Caught up in those waves Propelled Life goes on Same as it ever was Forever changed Forever fresh Forever (9/27/23)