Never Born Separate Again

It's easy to believe in eternity
When you can look this far in
To nothing.
It's easy to delve off into the illusion
That energy has set into play.
I stand and stare at the endless waves
Until I can almost feel motion sickness,
And brace myself against the time,
And the purity of space.

And all my life,
I've run from the quicksand
That lives to absorb me
And take my identity.
But today,
The fear dissolves all around me,
Leaves me standing still on "the land."
All that is left
Is an impermanent nothingness,
And I long to be swallowed by the everlasting,
And never born separate again.

 

-jenn long