Challenge.
The mind has its mountains,
cliffs of fall,
cautiously self-made traits
not easily climbed save by hearts
who fight fear and allow endurance
to augur change.
Life has its forbidding plains,
lion-limbed
heights of challenge that gained
by experience defines a belief
in those who bide with assurance
of heaven\'s aid.
Time has grinding anvils,
ego\'s test
loaded with iron will,
me-istically patterned to battle
all souls but who wins faces blows
with no wincing.