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The Climb

September 26, 2011
By greenyman GOLD, Warnerville, New York
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greenyman GOLD, Warnerville, New York
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I'll tell you a riddle. You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. But it doesn't matter." Inception.

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I was but a heap of soil,
Slowly but calmly,
Becoming a mound
Wanting and willing
To become a mountain.

I am a mountain,
Adulthood waits above,
Childhood lies below.
Hills and valleys,
Ups and downs
Have made me strong.
Dangerous cliffs wait ahead,
But I will climb,
Without falling.

© Eleanor J., McLean, VA

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