Sandstone talons etched your name, tested your ripeness, <br />Signaled to eagle-high ledges... <br />A foot rose, fell, and your soul was at one with the peak. <br />You became one with the mountain... <br />Did it become one with you... <br />Did you both journey higher, lower, or to the side. <br />Hard to hide a mountain, easy to cover a soul, <br />Until Eternity's dust settles... <br />Other mountains, other souls, waiting within the air. <br />Did you seek, along the path, a higher point... <br />Did it seek one further along the journey...shadows <br />Cast by the light. <br /> <br />Hard to move a mountain, easy to swallow a soul. <br />Can one swallow the mountain <br />Without moving the soul. <br />Joy. Resolve. <br />Celebration silence <br />Merging to dawn waves <br />Answering twilight questions.<br /><br />elysabeth faslund<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nepal/
