The Unconquerable Mountain

 The unconquerable mountain

With a fervour we follow the hill path,

That leads us up, up and away, 

We climb with a vigorous focus

To make higher inroads each day

We pass every landmark and signpost

Making notes on our journey's ascent

Not stopping to look back behind us, 

Still pushing, still not quite content

When tiredness and fatigue pervades us, 

We carry each other up hill

Looking only upwards and onwards

Ploughing sky high further still

Each stile we cross fades in the distance,

As our feet trudge this well trodden road

Seeking summits of success unyielding 

As we struggle to carry our load

As we reach each peak new ones appearing

Like targets set high in the sky

That mean stopping is never an option, keep climbing, don't stop, you must try

To reach the unconquerable summit

And rest satisfied at its peak

To fail is to say you are worthless

To struggle to say you are weak

So we march to where air is like gold dust

Where our bodies are broken and bent 

And our brains are a husk of exhaustion

Inspiration, motivation all spent

Yet still there's no spire in the distance

There's no bench upon which we can sit,

No end we can finally come to,

No place we can say "this is it"

This journey has taken our future,

Our past and our hopes and our dreams,

As we strove to accomplish our mission

So high up above though it seems

 We climb up this mountain together

We struggled and still could not reach

The targets forever still moving

That will haunt you as long as you teach