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Writer's pictureAnu Okikiolu

Poem #187 The Final Step

Updated: May 16, 2023

The final step

always seems so far away

until it is right in front of you.

It is to the taker

a sheer cliff impossible to climb.

The mountain does not want you to surmount it,

for your failure is its success

as it has proved its superiority

it has defeated another climber.

Your success its failure

for in doing so

you shatter its illusion

for yourself and others.


For anyone can start the climb

but it is in the finishing

that the lessons of the journey are realized.

A strange thing happens

when the final step is taken,

what seemed impossible at the start,

now seems within reach, after all.

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