Breaking Into Dawn

A millstone is around my neck and all that I can see is murkiness below me as I'm dragged to depths of sea. Disillusionment is oozing in this ocean of my plight; no rainbow fish to dart about and make the water bright. I’m being pulled toward something like from my darkest dreams - A place to lose one's very soul. . . a nothingness it seems. But now there up above me a distant light I view. And also I can barely see a tinge of rose and blue. The void below me crouches, and I'm conscious of the rope that binds my feet, but also I can feel my growing hope. For, through the ocean's skin, there is peeping down at me Hope in all her radiance; she shines with clarity! Rays of reassurance now gleam through gloom's descent. Prospect seems to call to me as if from heaven sent. I marvel as the millstone and the ropes all fall away. Released, I’m rising up and up to that golden ray. Bursting to exhale, I feel myself ascending fast. Refreshment of sweet oxygen I know I'll taste at last! A final surge; the coral glow of breaking day I see. I'm breaking water's surface; splendid dawn embraces me!