Free Cee Step Brightly
STEP BRIGHTLY
There are like these steps
spiral steps that lead to somewhere
or nowhere
your destination isn't ever made clear
it's a climb you must endure
because there's only one cure
and a distasteful one is that
with a tip of the hat
you begin to walk up
whilst seeing a half empty or half full cup
steps that seem forever long
as you sing a sorrowful ballad and/or love song
sometimes the lyrics lilt in the air like smoke from a chimney top
or sometimes it's a raging rhythm that against your will commands you do the bunny hop
hop from step to step going up a spiral staircase that is getting you to no place
and all too oft it seems as if it were all an unseemly race
those who finish are finished for real
those who haven't finished yet are running out of fuel and zeal
yet we keep our feet lifting up and down
one step births a smile-another a frown
you may meet some meaningful characters along the way
“why hello, I love you,” the fellow travelers will say
but their just as anxious to see where this staircase leads
all recounting their wretched and selfish deeds
and so we keep on keeping on
while the anxiety is never gone
and suddenly we realize
that the righteous are ready to go beyond the clouds and the skies
but those whose deeds caused them to live in a world of burnt sienna brown
for them the steps lead deep and way down
due to the staircase they will never be free
poor perishable people precisely akin to me
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