Brighter Than the Sun

From birth, all that ever lay before him was but a lightless dungeon.
To this darkness, irrelevant sins bound him... irrelevant memories engulfed him.
He writhed, gasping for breath with every fiber of his being,
attempting to clasp a sliver of light in this fathomless ocean.
Until the day the general stepped into the lightless depths of this prison,
he beheld a radiance shining brighter than the sun - the gaze of a young man.