Song of Ascent 🎶

FIRST PART

Home 🏡 is where our stories begin –

Leading us on a journey – sometimes our steps are weak and discouraging
when we look down, but we are given a song –
“Look up from where [your] help comes from!”

Slants of light from moonbeams
Shine in the midnight sky –
Falling asleep – I have a dream

It seems there is a ladder
made of ropes with
wooden rungs

Beginning to ascend –

I cannot keep my feet steady
holding on to the rope with
one hand

Looking down

the land and valley below is
treacherous, an altered look
about the hills

This rung is one of several I
Must climb – one at a time –

The wind
comes up pushing my body
around, beginning to lose faith

the fear of falling takes hold
I am told to look up, there are
more rungs on the ladder to go

Is this a dream? It seems like
I have been here before, this
continuous climbing makes me dizzy
and sick, disconnected and afraid
When a song is heard –
“Lift up your eyes to the hills from
where comes your help –
your foot shall [be saved]”

Ascending the next rung –

A false father god beckons me
he is the one I have clung to
Coming closer reaching out
with my hand he fades away
There is a wall I cannot ascend
even this ladder will not take
me to him

The rungs are splintering from
constant motion of my feet
shifting with effort to hold on
to this rung of self defeat
Continuous wringing of my hands
fear grips me again, I am enclosed
in darkness like the black
sky. “Where is the One I should
be looking for?” is my cry!

A stronger wind comes up
lightning and thunder strike
rain begins to fall
holding on to the rope tighter

than I did before. I am being
washed of all earthly
elements. The inception of my
rebirth begins

The wind has stopped along with
the rain, the rung is
unable to bear more strain
Clinging to the rope, my hands are
bleeding and sore little
progress I have gained

One rung left –

The rope is easier to grip, a
new Hand reaches to mine

Looking up, I have ascended
reaching the sky. The father I
searched for is gone and dead
I see another Father instead.

The quotation scripture
“Look unto the hills from where comes our help”
Is from Book of Psalms ‘A song of Ascent’
Chapter 121