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!
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