Far
Impossible,
or so they said,
to go as far
as none have not.
Yet here I stand:
the mountaintop
where none ascend,
and I will rest
to prize the view
so few will hold.
And then I'll start
to climb again.
Next stop: the sky,
and then the stars.
Don't shake your head.
They're not so far.
Far © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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Submitted: March 4, 2019