We were never interested in ladders.
They wobble.
They encourage looking down.
Instead, we stood in the field
where ants haul impossible burdens
and no one applauds
because the work is its own witness.
Someone asked who was the greatest.
We thought of the moon,
dragging oceans without a rΓ©sumΓ©,
and a child laughing mid-sentence
because joy interrupted him.
