Of Stumbling Block or Stepping stone...

PAD Challenge day 8: 

For today's prompt, write a metaphor poem. 

A simile is when something is like a something else (example: I am like a tree);

 a metaphor is when something is something else (example: I am a tree). 

So take a moment to consider possible metaphors and then poem them out.

Not quite the metaphor poem I was going for, but this is who it 'fell'

Which one are we?

We take up such a teeny spot

But what a sacred role we’ve got

For by our acts, we will be known

As stumbling block or steppingstone

We may not notice at first glance

While caught up in the circumstance

How composite of skin and bone

Is stumbling block or stepping stone

For we all have a part to play

Life is far more than day-to-day

It is a footpath that we hone

With stumbling block or stepping stone

We feed the flame of fear or hope

Rock solid ground, or slippery slope

We, with the grit of pray or groan

Are stumbling block or stepping stone

Do we indulge an idle mind

Or strive to be useful and kind?

Where little feet wait to be shown

By stumbling block or stepping stone

Such a short time, we take our place

In a long line of human race

Where act-and-react sets the tone

Of stumbling block or stepping stone

© Janet Martin

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: 

but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock 

or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

Romans 14:13