A Ladder to Nowhere

In the town of Gulchrist a wooden ladder with 5 steps hovered in the sky day in and day out.  No one was able to reach for the ladder. Once, the town built a great ladder to reach the mystical ladder but its distance seemed never to get closer. So, they stopped trying after 300 feet.  Eventually, everyone accepted the ladder.  After some years, the younger citizens would write poems and songs about the ladder.  

But one boy, Coda, he hated the ladder. He could not bare that the ladder led nowhere. That it was just a ladder without a purpose.