The Climb

Written by Susan Noyes Anderson on . Posted in General-Literary Poems, Life Lessons Poems

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Photograph ©2003 Anita Schiller

When do men lose the urge to climb
and run to ground?
Where children see a peak sublime
the grown-ups look at rock and grime,
then shake their heads and turn around,
exchanging dreams for feet of clay.
Who gives up heights becomes earthbound.
Youth slips away
without a sound.

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