I’m clinging on. Can’t look down.
Loosening grip. Help!
Someone help?
Anyone there?
Silence.
Falling,
Falling, further and further down
Into an abyss.
How could I fall so far?
Darkness surrounds me.
No-one is there.
Loneliness and fear.
I call out
Anyone there?
Silence.
Alone and scared
Anger too
Why me?
What did I do wrong?
Stumbling around in the dark.
Lost. Very lost and very alone
In this abyss that I have found myself in.
How? Why?
Fog descends. Thick fog
Swirling around.
Lost. Completely alone.
How long?
Days, weeks, months.
Let’s sleep now.
A nightmare?
No, I wake
In the same abyss,
The same fog as I stumble along
Lost and alone.
And then, one day,
A ray of sunlight
It’s small but it gleams.
It sparkles too.
In the distance.
I can see others stumble too
Towards the sunlight.
‘Wait’, I cry.
Wait for me!
A smile, a hand
Let’s walk together.
No longer alone.
There are others too
Lost like me and heading for the sun.
Heading for hope
Hoping for joy.
Sarah M
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