Stone laden roads
Swerve masterfully
Up the inclines

The meandering arteries
Carved with great care
That travel sullenly
Hollow and unused

Into the mist-shroud apex
Beyond, a teary eye’s reach
Where scores
Once peered hopefully
To attain its powerful glimpse

Into snow-capped exhilaration
I’d diminish
In its clouded embrace

Far from my trials
And the constant beckon
Of savage, earthbound sorrow

I’d trail
Through the faultless majesty
Proud and undeterred

Stocked
With raging valor

As I scale

Higher and higher

Diligently

Falling

Apart