The Reachers

I wonder what it's like
to be settled
content, fixed in a
surrounding
so much that it feels
stationary
with no upward mobility
just more and more
and more acceptance
of the comfortable
commonplace.
When do you decide
this is it
I'm done reaching
done rising
taking a back seat
while the others
do, expand
grow towards the sky
limbs becoming
lanky and awkward
and maybe so
but how many
remain seated
perplexed by the
sacrifice
while the reachers
those marvels
against the mundane
they know how high
the sky can go.