The Staircase

I have look upwards through the sky

to see the terraces of my dreams,

the places fill with my lives

that I thought I wanted to be,

a published writer, an executive,

marriage and family,

it all dwelled where I could claim

provided I just ascended

every step of effort needed.

 

But time tests and transforms

what is your visions

found a love of writing,

which is my passion

though lies outside the publisher’s walls,

become a supervisor instead of vice president,

yet discovered a joy at that level of work,

and accepted marriage with family

meant something totally different

than I first imagined.

 

Success and accomplishment for me

were an inward journey of learning,

to embrace with understanding a peace

where my feet had actually trod,

for I came to truly find happiness

when I looked for the gems

among the places I had come.

 

It was more reward to me

since I learned to see

all the blessings that had come

rather than what faded from my hopes.