Ladder

A race not for the winning, an end before a beginning

To get there from here, I built it day by day
Love, beauty, hate, war, buying, selling – all empty spinning

One step on the ladder and it rotted away

Even success turns bitter at the end

Plaudits and other trappings aside

Discovering the ladder is just pretend

You can't hide the broken pieces inside

Love, beauty become broken clawing at the young

How could the perfect touch this sordid earth?

We wrestle till we are overcome

But You gave the dying a second birth