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
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