Originally published in Planet Magazine No. 24 (December 1999).
Nothing lasts forever…
Turn your back and walk away;
never to return.
Deep inside your pounding heart
a fire begins to burn.
Orange sky, pastel moons and planets,
above her where she stands.
Only as a sweet, fleeting memory,
will be her lost homeland.
The path to the stars is lonely and cold.
But it beckons with a power and vast
mysterious majesty untold.
The promise of adventure.
Every door opens a way, we must step inside.
And some doors will close. Never to open.
So begins the greatest ride.
It’s not where you go. It’s not what you do.
It’s who is with you, that brings the greater joy.
To share.
But the cold, black void beckons, Avrilita must go.
Her eyes never turn.
Like the restless ocean, like the river’s flow,
Will the waters return?
Remember the days, the summers,
the times we shared together.
Happy and sad.
That is all we have.
Nothing lasts forever…
Poem copyright © 1999/2000 by Tony Chandler
Artwork “Avrilita Blastitus” copyright © 1999/2000 by Romeo Esparrago
