Climbing the Mountain

I'm going to show them-

No I'm going to show YOU

that you don't even know me

but fortunately I do.

I will prove to you-

I will prove to everyone

that I'm nowhere near finished-

I've only just begun.

When you've been falling

there is nowhere but down.

And the ever-looming

always there, hard and sturdy ground.

But when you begin to climb

your mind is not on what's below

but on where you're going to go.

Sometimes it crosses my mind

that I'm only hanging on by a pebble.

Why not slip and fall right down

and become buried by all the rubble?

But no, I may not make it all the way

but I will certainly try.

I will climb up very far

before I inevitably die.

We spend our whole lives climbing

and falling, nonetheless.

Hoping to be living

in a world of happiness.

I'm on my way to the top

and I intend to make it high.

So when I finally reach the end

I will feel like I can fly.

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