"A beautiful sight whether your on the way up or down"
What if you could take a stairway to the stars…
How much would it cost? Would it be reserved for those
trying to grasp a moon for love cowboy style? Maybe it would only be for those
searching for solitude from the anguish of a troubled past or present.
How many steps would it take? Would you be willing to take
the trip knowing there is only one way up, and only one way back down?
What if you could take a stairway to the stars…
I picture folks lining the steps praying. Asking wishes come
true before the night ends and the stairway disappears. I think of couples
trying to prove their strength by making it to the top; hopefully together.
What if there was a stairway to the stars…
Would the top step be called hope leading to a diving board
called love? And some wouldn't be told to grab a “trust” parachute before they
made the climb.
I imagine the bodies falling by the thousands. And every so
often I’d see a chute open. Just as long as they got the complete parachute
that had a primary pull-cord called “reliability” and a secondary called “truth”.
It would be funny to see some falling with their chute searching
for a cord that was never there or have it fail and or not have a backup as
they drop into the dark abyss.
A stairway to the stars…Wouldn't it be a marvelous thing.
Being able to touch the heavens without having to strap
yourself to a million tons of fuel. Yet the likelihood of surviving would be
one in the same.
And the irony of it all is I would take a climb. Suddenly
becoming bored watching peoples futile attempts at reaching the heavens and
trying to show them how it should be done. I imagine climbing high enough to
see the entire Milky Way. I would get so close I would feel the radiance of the
lights warmth on my skin. So high it would be difficult to breathe. I would dive
off and pray to land somewhere on the clouds. And hopefully be stuck forever
gazing at the complexity of the heavens above; none the less satisfied and
happy knowing that I tried to reach for them and came so close.
How amazing would it be to play among the stars? The beauty
of vast galaxies; Distant; Unseen; Uncharted. Somersaulting off of love and praying to grow
wings and explore, gliding down to try again, or falling…landing on a cloud or to
an untimely demise.
-Moises Seraphin
