The Ladder

 

A weight for kindness

the measure which is unbalanced as is compassion

the tendency of the heart toward light

and toward darkness

 

the interior is an act of mercy

by the building of a ladder

you can see the ladder if you know where to look

where when looking for it

is the building of it.

and others may see it and by not looking the rungs slowly dissipate

 

into the soul’s memory of it,

like a youth that comes to maturity

waiting for the memory waiting to be seen again

once seen and once remembered begins the ascension

grows the light of recognition

the inner Jacobian memory of wrestling with angels,

and against the dark.