Steep Incline Poem by John Sensele

From caring friends and daring Devil's advocates
Draw precious inspiration and delicious affection from the bottom
Of hearts primed to propel your future beyond baskets

Where shattered dreams and stuttered schemes roam
Free and flee from prospects to inject a new momentum
A new quantum leap forward to reward effort
Commitment, attachment and detachment from a percentum

Which for long held you down away from the port

Lit up by rays of hope, rays of sapience and radiance
Scooped in hoops by determined souls who refuse
To cede room to defeat in pits of disorientation
Chests of pride that ride on sides of a blown fuse
That no longer serves a useful purpose in the dissemination

Of critical philosophies that effect a paradigm shift
Essential to reset your dreams on an upper lift.