The Ladder Of "Next"

I welcome my world

I welcome the sky

I welcome the ocean —the need to know why

The current which sends me

To crash on the shore

Delivers a message

Too strong to ignore

I bask in the presence

Of sadness and light

Of joy in the darkness

Of comets in flight

The path of ascension

Descending to change

The ladder of "next"

Back to childish games

I wander in silence

Deleting the map

To see a new sunrise

Illumine the path

No longer a ladder

It breaks from its shell

To rise: a new chapter

Of life lived to tell

The story you've seeded

Through courage and pain

Is all that you needed

To walk through the rain

—Pinder