I am sinking

Into darkness

Palpable, tangible, stifling

Darkness

Immeasurable depths 

I did not know were there within me

Sucking me deeper

Into a lightless abyss

I can hardly breathe

There is no perspective

Nothing to reach out to

Nothing to hold on to

Nothing

I am sinking

Further still

Into a bottomless pit

Above me there are sounds

Voices

Voices of reason

Voices of logic

Voices of light

But I cannot hear them

The silence engulfs them

The darkness is deafening

But then

Something

There is something deeper still

Deeper than the pit

Deeper than the abyss

Deeper than the darkness

A presence

A sense of being

A sense of knowing

I am not alone

Beneath me there are the everlasting arms

And in the darkness

I find rest

I am being lifted

© Johannes W. H. van der Bijl 2020