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The neverending staircase

When I took my first step, I should have fell backwards.

 

It would have meant failure.

 

But it wouldn’t mean being here.

 

On this neverending staircase.

 

I walk up and up, hoping to find a door, or a hallway, a path.

 

Yet, just more steps.

 

Each step is a milestone which in the end leads to…

 

Another staircase.

 

Scared to move forward

 

but scared to look down.

 

Looking down may cause my madness to spiral out of control.

 

It may cause it to continue..

 

to lead me beyond the staircase.

 

To a pinewood box.

 

I can’t go back.

 

Secretly I know what awaits me at the top.

 

The very top.

 

You.

 

With a grin that matches the Cheshire cat’s ten fold.

 

I climb the steps.

 

to my past.

 

to my past lover.

 

to the reason for my insanity.

 

My neverending staircase.

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Written by
kiara-mcneil
122 / F / American
Published
Jul 6, 2011
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