Stairs
The stairs are getting harder to climb, requiring more and more from thighs, knees, breath, interest. It must be that the stairs are changing, are in some sort of life process, which seems like it will sooner or later render them unclimbable. Which is the opposite of what you hope for in stairs. They are becoming their opposite, what has been left out all these years and is now being addressed, accepted, lived! More power to you, stairs. And best of luck with what you change into after this, as you move deeper into your mysterious life.
Peter Cashorali is a neurodiverse queer writer living at the intersection of rivers, farmland and civil war. He practices a contemplative life.
See more of his work in 13.1 and 13.1