The Heraclitus Door
I found a free-standing door in the woods.
Of course I went through!
On the other side you weren’t
any less absent, and yet
panic like a paper lantern
launched from my chest.
I turned, snatched the handle,
found it locked.
I knocked and I knocked;
the past would not let me back in.
~ Todd Dillard
Sven Loves Danger Girl 