March 12,  2017

STAIRCASE

I know of Frost’s two roads

diverging in a yellow wood -

and I thought about an elevator

as a metaphor. It has its ups

and downs - but an elevator

is too linear and too literal.

So it struck me - a staircase

could be the better metaphor -

the better image - to sit there

on a step - it becoming the top 
or bottom step - depending 
if I make the choice to take 
the steps upwards towards the
light or to descend downwards
on the dark steps leading to 
the locked basement door.

© Andy Costello, Reflections  2017