Light! Give me light!

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog,
when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness
shut you in and the great ship,
tense and anxious, groped her way
toward the shore with plummet
and sounding-line,
and you waited with beating heart
for something to happen?

I was like that ship before my education began,
only I was without compass or sounding line,
and no way of knowing how near the harbor was.

"Light! Give me light!"
was the wordless cry of my soul,
and the light of love
shone on me in that very hour.

- Helen Keller