The Elevator Only Goes Up

The elevator only goes up

If you want to go down

You take the stairs

And the stairs

Are a long way

Down

Floor after floor

While others

Go up

You could just

Keep going up

The sky goes first

Then the stars

Then the second sky

That rides atop

The stars

Too high?

An idea will hit you

When you reach

A higher platform

Of existence

An idea that

Down

Was always

A thing

To refuse

To refuse

To go down

To be

Brought down

The only reason

You ever

Hit that button

Every day

That said

Ground Floor

Was because somebody

Told you

That access

Was limited

That the availability

Of the higher levels

Was sectioned off

And given

To those

Who’ve earned it

And what did that mean?

What did that mean
To you?

Did you stop and think about it?

Or did you just

Accept what was given to you

And head down

Down

Down

To the lobby

Where everybody

Was so happy to see you

Because you were with them

And not off

A thousand floors up

Experiencing something

They could never even

Dream of?

We will take your feet

Off the ground

We will will take your feet

Off the floor

Of the elevator

That only goes up

And lift your chin

And propel you

Past gravity

You will never

Have to think

About being on solid footing

Ever again

But that’s just

If you get in the elevator

That only

Goes up

Because once you do

There’s no changing

Direction

There’s no redirecting

The course

Of your travel

Sign-up is done in ink

You hear me?

I don’t want belly-aching

When the roof of the elevator

Splits in two

And you’re taken out

So you can do away

With even that

Which took you

To the heights

You never thought

You’d find yourself at

You are above

You are the ideal of above

And up

And up

And up

You are only

Going

Up