To Climb Is to Fall
I place a foot upon a rung
I pull myself up one more step
Looking down I have come so far
Rising up like the lonely star
Shedding yesterday in my wake
To Heaven I make weary climb
Each step and pull a weighted thing
Each step up a good deed I sing
Though not easy to be divine
I’m almost there, I hear the call
Trumpets playing through golden hall
Passing final rung, standing tall
Then I begin to
Fall
Fall
Fall
From
Grace
Into
the
clouds
below
Ladder
rungs
flying
past
in
blur
Cruel
Winds
They
Whip
Me
To
And
Fro
Then I land upon
Rock bottom
Everything here so very still
Everything here is so quiet
Allowed time to reflect on life
Countless missteps during the climb
Wasn’t perfect I never was
Yet here I am at start again
Two choices, then, I have to me
Stay and wallow in self-pity
Or make that dreaded climb again
I cannot promise anything
But I can try to right the wrongs
Putting others before myself
Most important: I’ll be myself
A weary grip upon a rung
I pull myself up one more step
Looking back I cannot forget
No matter how far we have come
In life we climb
In life we fall
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The tension in this is real!
I love the shape of this, the honesty, and the grit and determination.
Love: “A weary grip upon a rung/I pull myself up one more step”
Fantastic use of words and white space!
Eric, powerful verse, for example, “In life we climb, In life we fall.”
Truth! ” In life we climb,
In life we fall”
I loved the way you told the story.