The Rise

frustration may grip at your nerves

as once again the landscape ascends

and you look upon it with weary eyes

but there is a gift in plying yourself

to the task of climbing once again

for you have nothing to prove to anyone

if only yourself, as you lean onto the rise

grasping with your hands, pushing with feet

and going up to the top where your goal

has waited for you to become what Fate

inevitably has asked you to become