One little step you take

Can make the difference

Between hope and despair

Stepping out on the stair

That seems insurmountable

But leads to a fabled fountain

Down that precarious slide

Hanging on the mountainside

One tiny step at a time

You can make it

With knees of rubber

Grab on to the rails

You can fake it

Past the point

Where the boulder

Gashed a gaping hole

For you to fall into doom

You can descend

Past the point of hell

Where you envision

Your own tomb

And then somehow

When you reach

The bottom of the canyon

You look up...

A fall of water lifts you

Sprays across your mind

Splashes on your skin

Into liquid rainbows

Intensified by the sun

Somehow a miracle shows

When you least expect it...