On the way down,
the mountain grows taller behind me.
Perspective is a trickster like that.
I feel lighter, though
nothing in my pack has changed.
Only the weight of my thoughts has shifted.
At the trailhead,
I turn once more to
the looming shape above me.
The mountain says nothing.
And somehow,
that is enough.
.
Yes, I see precisely what you
Yes, I see precisely what you mean, the message we sense in the final stanza there especially draws that contrast; whereas mine may be patriarchal, yours is much more positive.
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Jesus loves us, stoned or not
Both angles valid and
Both angles valid and required. So it's all for us to be glad of them being thusly so
here is poetry that doesn't always conform
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