descent

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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.







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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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Both angles valid and

Both angles valid and required. So it's all for us to be glad of them being thusly so Smile


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