MOUNTAIN By ... Steve Lucky

               MOUNTAIN
          By ... Steve Lucky

Extending up into the sky,
Mountain peaks are very high.
Learning how to properly climb
Up to its summit will take plenty of time.
Things such as how to climb it best
And when to get some much needed rest
Comes to those who can endure
Paths for which they are unsure.
Risking their lives just to learn,
Future climbers look and yearn
To find a way to reach the top.
Ambition is something hard to stop.
Helicopter rides to the top may be neat,
But climbers consider it a cheat.
Only through hard work can one even hope
Success will be found at the end of a climbing rope.
Gradual progress has to be made
In a place sometimes offering very little shade.
Everything can be lost if one climber should fall.
Weight placed on one is placed on all.
Done for more reasons than simply to brag,
Higher and higher they place a flag
Until it is as high as it can be
For the people down below to see.
Others are content to look,
Knowing the risk those climbers took.

Copyright 2003, Steve Lucky