Lyric

Peak is hidden in clouds

I can't see the top, but I can feel it pulling

Every step up. Every breath thin

I've heard legends about this place

I've heard nothing from anyone who got there

Perhaps they stayed

Perhaps they understood something and stopped coming back

I keep climbing

Creatures here are different—

Older, scarred, patient

They don't attack. They watch

I watch back

We're both testing if this mountain wants us

At the summit, alone, there's a shrine

No offerings. Just stone

I sit. I don't meditate. I don't pray

I just admit I don't know what I'm doing here

That honesty feels like a kind of prayer anyway

Mountain doesn't keep score

Mountain just stands

I came here to be someone

I'm leaving just myself

ComingSbdown, everything looks smaller

The routes I was afraid of, the battles I avoided—

They all seem manageable now

Not because I'm stronger

Because I stopped measuring

The mountain taught me that

I don't say thank you

I just never forget

Mountain holds its silence

I hold mine

Foot on the last stone

Then gone