I am a rung on a ladder

I am a rung on a ladder

I get people to the next level
I am not a fun rung
I am not a place people want to be
I am not where people invite their friends to come hang out
I am a lonely place, a hurting place
I am a place where people bring their garbage and leave it

I am a rung on a ladder

I am dirty and broken
I feel the weight that they carry and crack under the pressure
I am smeared with the grime that they've left behind
I see the next one coming and the next one
I am afraid that I cannot bear one more
I don't know what else to do, it's what I was built to do

I am a rung on a ladder

I am afraid of what they are going to do to me
I give them all of me and then they move on and forget me
I feel so used
I brace myself as the next one comes
I fall in love with them as they put their trust in me
I am so proud of them when they make it to the next rung

I am a rung on a ladder

I am humbled to be able to witness this stage in so many lives
I may not be the party rung
I may not be where people hang out
I get to witness the most amazing transformations I can imagine
I am privileged to have a hand in caterpillars turning into butterflys
I get to see victims transformed into legacy builders

I am a rung on a ladder

I can't imagine any other role
I don't want any other life
I don't want to love in any other way
I am so blessed to be me
I don't want this to ever be taken away
I want to forever be me

I am a rung on a ladder!