Each Mountain

For each of us that climb a mountain each day, both literally and figuratively ~ the hike is arduous, breath-racking, difficult, impossible even. 

We climb, many times reluctantly, but mostly because we have to. It is in the every day, every second, choices to plant that one more step across the incline, when the pain in our lungs and our calves threaten to bring us to our knees, that when we climb, do we see the view, grand and majestic presented to and before us.

This poem is dedicated to all us brave souls that climb a mountain each day ~  And for the ones that have gone before us, leading, forging, planting steps so that we too can walk and not be afraid.... to our fathers, our mothers, our friends and family and to our children ~ walk firm then and know you do not walk alone…

Each mountain

Each mountain I climb
The steps I take
Measured, some
Through harried breath
Are but the confirmed
Of choices defined.

Each step I plant
Through passages inclined
Each tread, every stride

A moment that declares,

This, the all and one
One and all
This journey mine.

Look upward, hold fast
Steady heart
Beat firm though loud,
And know this
This mount too
Shall be conquered

Seized, one day

Be mine.


Sometimes I fall
I stumble; and tired
Limbs and aching hearts
Doth whisper, Rest
Desist, pause a while

Sometimes the chasms

Deep, doth beckon

Dark, the valleys bleak

That pauses brief

Yet cloying invites.

Not yet, I murmur

Not now, not ever

The pink and white bobbing

A fairer pitch do deliver.

And so I climb, each
day, each moment
Some slow, others
Slower still;
And yet I climb
Knowing that this
Brings victory, peace
Tranquillity divine.

                  ~ Judith Vaddi

Photos courtesy @Deborah Misao.....  :)