Sunday, February 14, 2021

Himalayan Call

 


Imperiously majestic the mountains

rise from the mantle of the Earth

like imperial crowns reaching

out to the heavens as though to

reunite the planet with its source

an expanding universe unwilling to

reassemble itself in its original

manifestation of impatient atoms

anxious to become wayfarers of an

ancient timeless odyssey, a stellar

adventure of self-discovery and

ultimate alienation from the mother

lode which bore then released them

in a gargantuan spasm of violence

unhindered by the ghostly presence

of  resistance to the cataclysmic

expansion. The monumental stele on

the planet are fixed in situ destined to

remain symbolic of the greatness of

nature to whom ancients ascribed godly

attributes sacrificing lives to propitiate

the spirits. To this day the irresistible

magnetism of the mountains call to

those who cannot resist ascending

unforgiving slopes in worship, in the

process submitting to the inevitable

outcome as sacrifices yet again.


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