The Current

I’ve been pulled under
Lapping waves swallowed me whole
Stunned and dumbstruck by the voice
That calls to me from beneath
The dark, cold surface.
Strikes a chord within me
Resonates a memory
I drown within myself,
Let go of all I know.

And I know a kind of peace…
I found it far too easily.

Striking the bottom, I find
Only the cold stone of a riverbed,
Not the numbing warmth
I’d been so falsely promised.
A baptism of lies,
Eye opens wide
Now I can see
For the first time.
Reborn, cold and aware.

Sunlight trickles down through the current
A ray of truth, of hope…
Barely visible in the murk and gloom.

Struggling now, flailing now,
Searching now, inhaling now
No air to be found
No redemption in the cold
Shifting sands of the bottom.
Just the eternal current
And the surrender to its will.
Euphoria and
Darkness.