POETRY

Crumbling Steps

To an uncertain summit

Stairway in Castiglioncello, Italy — Original image — credit: Jim Dutton

Finish college, get a job, then marriage
start a family, raise the kids, and flourish
retire, travel, and grow old together
meet again in heaven, or wherever.

That was the plan, our steps to be happy
each one a ratchet on our long journey
steadily climbing…