Ticket 2 Ride

There is no bottom beneath me

Life is forlorn and fallow

Light bends and is swallowed whole

Twelve long months of shadow

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Storm after storm pummels

No safe harbor in sight

Winds of misfortune howl

Each day requires all my might

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Drifting around the drain

A hand reaches thru the riptide

With the strength of a promise

She pulls me over the dark divide

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I can finally draw a deep breath

Bounding upward from pressure below

Gulping life by frantic inhales

Free of the gripping undertow

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The clouds recede revealing the stars

Floating in the ether, the Milky Way

Raining sparkles around us

Out of the darkness a new day