Tag: challenge

Towers ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #194

Every time I reach
Just a little beyond my grasp
I imagine myself a tower
With the pinnacle in my hand

Along this broken shore
I make my way
Stutter stride
Across uneven rock
Where scattered life
Though clinging, thrives

Much as I
On challenged path
Lose my balance
Then regained
A beacon there
Should day grow dark

I find my way
Through the rockiness
Down the icy steeps
Traversing the flats

Along the way
Seeking the deep powder
The cruisable hard pack
The soft moguls

The challenge
Is not so much the hardships
But remembering
What trandscending
The hardships brings

From the valley floor
I see
Some few imposing
Icy peaks

But clamber up
One mountainside
And from atop
Discover

Endless array
Of pinnacles
Each mighty in itself
Waiting to be conquered

The light runs through the black
I remind myself of that
There’s gold within the rock
Riches to be found in the hardest of times

I heed the signs
Those which speak clearly
With authority
Of course

But I am drawn
Inexorably
To those of mystery
Promising adventure
Challenge
And discovery

I prefer quests of query
Over sorties of attainment

I sidle up
To places forbidden
Marvel and wonder
So much grander
More formidable
Than I

The places
The people
Who challenge them
Whether they succeed
Or fail