Stairway to the Stars

"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