Hold On To What Matters Poem by Sean Joyce

Endeavor to sever
the call of the wild
Lean into the crevice
not out to the void

Hold on to the metal
fix your grip in the slot
Stick your lips to the cliff
face if that's all you've got

Drop all non-essentials
within and without
Feet in the footholds
Hands on the rock

Avoid all the malcontents
alcoholics and dropouts
Shun red-necks and rubbernecks
and all no-neck monsters

Whatever you do
do whatever it takes
take whatever you have to
But, hold on to what matters