The Elusive Here to There

Where ere you stand is Here.
Where you want to be is There.
It looks easy, getting There.
We walk tightropes to get There, only to find it gone.
It is Here, not There, as expected.
In between our knees are skinned, our shins are kicked, our feet are blistered.
We lie. We squat. We smell.
We fall, and fall, and fall, from our tightropes strung between too much or too little.

Too much is a soft bed where tightropes are forgotten--hard to resist.
Too little is pain and suffering--hard to escape.
There is Nowhere but Here.