Mountain Reckoning

 

The mountain draws us ever close

Majestically demanding its own prose

 

Dramatically urging an attempting

Come, get higher, summit tempting

 

Always there with perspective sight

Grand vista’s reward the brave, the right

 

Ah, but that climb is oh so steep

The strength needed ever deep

 

Paths often so unclear

The top vanishingly near

 

Mankind, tribes, nations climb

A must to find a better place in time

 

Born in a valley we are drawn to heights

Struggles, growth, learning and fights

 

It is a life of strain, of stress of battle scars

Yet our souls seek this path to the stars

 

The mountain is always there beckoning

Our drive and character it’s always reckoning