the distance from horrible to happy
this is not nearly so wide
it is but a trick of the light
for one to cross in a single stride
just don’t look down as they say
just take one step and then another
and look straight ahead…into the future
for the rope is the present
and the gulf is the past;
so we,
we shall remain fixed upon the horizon
as a ship is fixed upon safe harbour
being pulled as though by a chain
to the dock
and the waiting warm embrace
of arms that have always been there,
of arms that shall be there again.