The Ladder

Guilded I am

Seen as superior

Expectations run high

So I push, and push

I strive to achieve

Reaching for the top

Climbing higher, and higher

The summit within view

Nearer, and nearer

I taste the sweetness

Intoxicating all

My head swimming

Narcissus whispers in my ear

Filling my head

Thoughts of grandiosity

I twist and turn

His corruption propagates

Infecting my thoughts

My confidence unmatched

I begin to summit

The top within grasp

I reach out

It vanishes

I fall, and fall

Nothing to slow my descent

I am hopelessly plummeting

Down, and down

All I believe, dissipated

I clung to lies

I am nothing

Occulted to all

Yet I continue

My inevitable path

I must ascend

The fall isn't the end

Just a punishment

The summit is a lie

It does not exist

Only the climb endures

An endless ladder