I climb
up and up and up and up
walking slowly savoring the height of the highest point and
looking
down at where I
was before the climb where I will
be after the fall and
still I
climb higher and higher
what I thought the top is no
more and I go to
where
there is still further to fall
up and up and up falling up
nothing is below
to see
low still too low
running running upstairs
and stairs to reach
the top
out of breath and still
running even though I know
I will never reach above
forever
up I go out of breath
I look above below is everything I
at top it seems
am low
I think of what I've
passed and past and future merge
as one I was
where
I am and go again
now I run and run down down
down steps and steps
falling
over tumbling echos bellow
from below ring hollow too far
I don't want to
slip
away into past future
repeats and feet frantic to escape
step on feet
footprints
in the stairs the other
way is progress progress made
but my prints are the same
if only I could go
back not to the bottom not top
level flat and
dull
one who cannot
leave is trapped forever in this cycle
where forever is up
and down.