Reaching Heights

Reaching Heights

I had a dream.

Reaching the highest height was what I fancied.

The swaying tree tops?

The twirling kites or the birds that rule the heavenly skies?

None to me appeared challenging.

Neither tall nor high!

In pride I dwelled.

“Oh the world, bring forth for me

A grittier challenge!”, I yelled.

“Invincible and The Great”, they called me

And in vanity I swelled!

Then from far wrapped in the spine-chilling winds

Came the word,

“You miserable creature! Come scale

Our grandeur! Our mighty stature!”

And they all murmured.

Doubt and suspicion?

Oh you people! That's indeed treason!

To mere words will I ever surrender?

My esteem was hit.

I dared pay my challenger a visit.

Heaven Oh Heaven!

The majesty of the mountain aloft!

I hadn't dreamed of something such sublime a sort.

There I stood at its feet bewildering

Is that real or am I still dreaming?

Obscured in the clouds above, I could still hear

the Summit mock me loud and clear.

Without a thought or two, I commenced my

Journey to reclaim faith on my snubbed ego.

I had a point to prove, I'm the best of them all

That's the fact none can disapprove!

The ascent was tough, the winds made it tougher

Rocks tumbled down and at each step I had to suffer.

The freezing winds biting my skin down

My arrogance took all the pain with agony and frown.

Stumbling, fumbling, my strength crumbling

Yet my anguished pride still fuming, zealously rumbling.

The top spot is mine, and I was honestly determined.

The rocks rolled and the winds swished by

But oh the perseverant ‘I’!

My efforts soared and my strength endured.

Ripping apart failure's ghastly shroud.

Yet again I'd made myself proud.

Proud indeed for what I had lost.

My arrogance and ignorance

And confinement to that surreal thought.

It was a lesson, a lesson well learnt.

To dust and fine ashes! I had my ego burnt.

What emerged was a man different and fine.

Destined to soar, like the stars up there that humbly glitter and shine.