Jacob's Ladder

legend knows the way twelve angels attended the ladder was a dream a metaphor and promise the poets know the gift a single race to spread to populate the world never to be abandoned there on Mount Moriah would be their temple and a trust from above guarding the stairway now the straight path often lost and empty waits rays of sunlight shining on Jacob's rest in a sleeping meadow lies a dreaming child as the earth awakes a lavender reminder so may that child arise prosper in gifts and grow perhaps showing the way earth still is a paradise