Mountains Most people don't understand how hard it is to climb a mountain until they have to face one themselves They push their doubts to the side and decide that the climb is short and easy Like people don't die trying to make it to the tops. Most people climb a mountain once, maybe twice, many overcome them in a night. And when they reach those heights, they almost never come down. There are some that climb mountains every day in every way shape and form Mountains that make Everest look small, so high above the clouds, you faint if you look down. The winds are harsher the higher you go and so much air fills your lungs you feel like you’ll drown. Finding your way back to the base of this mighty rock is a feat so much harder than climbing to the top. You think you can reach it, your ego inflated so high that its impossible size looks small. You take one step and realize your hopes and dreams are so much further than you thought. And the thought chills you to your core, so much you cant move your muscles to take another step. And that second step is the most important. Its the one that proves you can climb but it takes so much time to just move. To make a choice. For your brain to decide that today WILL be the day you climb this mountain, and there's no snow or wind, or hail that will stop me. So you’ll grab your climbing gear, and your heart, and you go to that base and look up at the impossible mountain before you, and you take your first step and then you take your second! You pick up your feet one by one gazing at the rising sun and one day you’ll realize that you're near the top!! The scene is sensational! You can see the clouds beneath you, all your trouble and fears and-! You feel your feet slip, the ground seems to vanish from beneath you and in the blink of an eye you are back at the base of this mountain, heart broken once again. You feel hopeless, you think this mountain is too tall and that every time you try you’ll fall so you don't try climbing anymore But you know that at the top of that mountain is a euphoria you won't get anywhere else, A euphoria that you are so desperate to feel. So, You get back on your own two feet and you grab your climbing gear and your broken heart and you try again You fall and climb and fall and climb until you're on the brink of losing your mind. You watch as others climb mountains so quickly so easily, without an ounce of fear in their hearts and it discourages you. But you try and try again! And one day, you see that horizon the clouds beneath you, your trouble and fears far down below This time you won't fall, and as you reach that final stretch, you hold your breath as you reach that peak and all that you feared and every bit of sorrow in your heart dissipates into nothing as you relish in the victory of your labours! You did it! but your heart darkens as you gaze on what's before you, Another mountain, A taller mountain, One that makes the one you just climbed look small. You think your hearts to fragile to climb this one, That you barely survived your first and that you surely wont survive your second. You know that there is probably an even taller mountain to climb after you climb this one! You don't know when the mountains will end, how many you must peak before youre on top of the world. But You know the feeling of reaching those peaks will be even greater than the feeling you feel now! So you find the base of this mighty rock your ego inflated so high that its impossible size looks small You take one step and realize that this climb will be so much harder than the first. So, You fall and climb and fall and climb until you're on the brink of losing your mind. You carry your broken heart with you the whole way. Most people don't understand how hard it is to climb a mountain, until they have to climb one themselves. What you think is easy, may be near impossible for someone else. Like reading this poem in front of class, is a mountain, A mountain I’ve conquered at last.