Point of Recovery

It's taken a couple years
of reaching and falling
stretching and collapsing

grabbing and missing
the handholds
I'm not a climber
In fact, most times
I've been staying in one place
not really going down
but certainly not going up

How can a stationary person,
an immobile object, hope
to touch anything good
and new, if she never moves?
Now I'm moving, even
if it is pretty slow
but I think I'm going
the right direction this time
up, up and up some more
a few steps at a time
looking ahead and infront
passing by the things
I left behind me