Aspiring

Aching cold bites through my clothes
As step by step I conquer gravity
Battle raging on icy mountain face
While far below the world sleeps

Plunge, step, step; plunge, step, step
Endless seems the marching rhythm
Yet for just one slip.
An icy grave would call my name

Horizon burns with rising sun
It teases as a glowing ember
Till sky bursts to brilliant flames
Searing eyes and warming souls

Delicious burning pain in warming hands
Toes turn from wood to flesh again
All while the fight continues on
Plunge, step, step, goes the battle cry

Proudly staunch stands the icy face
Sun fuelled desire drives me forward
Below the world wakes, oblivious
To battles won and victories earned above