A Ladder Appears
Stuck on the broken landing
Of a stairway to nowhere
My mood no longer elevated
My spirit remiss of song
Looking over the railing
Into a history that I buried
A ladder appears above me
But when I step—its rungs are gone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Copyright © Kurt Philip Behm | Year Posted 2019
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