My family took a trip to Washington
Traveling up the coastal highway
I was but a small child, fascinated
With all the things I'd never seen before
On a cloudy day we stopped
To observe a beach somewhere
On the Oregon coast
It was a cloudy day, cold
The wind and waves a symphony
To my innocent desert heart
I wandered away from my parents
The danger of oblivion so close
But I didn't know that type of danger
The wave caught my foot
And swept me away in an instant
Everything became absolute chaos
I couldn't breathe
I didn't know where I was
In mere moments I touched the face of death
Time lingered towards eternity
As I slipped away
An invisible hand seemed to tighten around me
I heard a voice, loud yet gentle
Without gender, without identity
"Not yet"
The rumbling vortex spat me on the shore
I laid there, sputtering, confused
I stood up as my parents rushed to me
And I smiled at them
As if nothing had happened
