A steep to climb, to meet my lovelorn prowess
For years be-teased, now duly pride-shorn prowess!

Like giving up old instruments for new—
Old [i]hill[/i] for new—a fresh-cloaked, back-borne prowess.

To reach the top a mere eight-hundred feet,
And nothing much!—this dewy, thread-worn prowess.

But folks that pass make light of such a stunt.
…With talk and jibe, “Let’s grab some popcorn,” prowess. 

And switch by switch I hide to catch a breath
From college students’ sweat and limb-porn prowess.

Pretending it’s a deer see 'skance the slope
Which makes the test of Chris’s heap-scorn [i]prowess[/i].