Climb

Step by step you climb. You see the top, so complete and perfect, but it isn't enough. Your feet must feel its  platform or you cannot have truly stood atop the world. The journey is slow, and hard. At times you feel apt to call it agonizing, but then you see the sun, you find a ledge, and you sit down and see the sky. It is worth it then, yet you wonder if you have gone far enough. If the sky and the ledge is all you need. But the rock, it crumbles slowly, a little more each day. If you wait too long there may be no top to go to. Even the ledge on which you sit must crumble eventually. So you press onward, you are almost there.