After the Summit...

The wish granted
& battle won
Earnings
  paid
Honors
  received
Success
  achieved

but then

Upon the pinnacle's peak
Gazing out with epiphanous eyes
Everything scene
Is seen to be beneath
For soaring birds
leave all the earth below

So it's dive right in
or fall back down

Either way
Eyes will look up again
at another distant peak
And feet will more forward
As hands reach
to grasp whatever rests above them
As the next ascent begins

Summit after
summit
The elevation
and the dive
Somehow the gravity of it all
is greater than the heights of peaks
and far beyond the sums
of each and every fall