Ladders in the Sky

08/09/2020 -  Poem a Day Compilation



I looked up and you weren’t there

No clouds or birds or even blue

No sound of your voice wafting by

Just those ladders in the sky



I tried to climb them but I could not reach

I planted a tree so it would grow and

I could use its branches to lift me higher

But it sprouted low and like a brier.



I moulded stairs from the finest clay

But before I could scale its height

The rain came and washed it down

Leaving a puddle of mud so brown



I piled stones as high as I was able

But they crumbled before me into dust

Under the weight of expectations

I’m unable to reach the constellations



I searched the sky for your face

But I didn’t know how to get to you

And wished I could fly so high

To grasp those ladders in the sky