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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When one's perspective has changed nothing more needs to be said. A beautiful poem of how it is what we see that makes the difference.
And what a difference it is indeed🕊️🙏🏻
Indeed
Felt like I was taken back to the book "The Snow Leopard." Beautiful write!
Thanks dear Mutley🙏🏻🕊️
Ccooooeeeee! That you shouting from the top of the mountain?! lol.
And you on another peak filling the hills with the sound of (hymnal) music 🕊️🙏🏻
Wow! Powerful metaphor, my friend. It is interesting the way we view mountains/obstacles/life depending on where we are, no? At the bottom looking up...HELL NO! On the top looking down...GLORIOUS. The journey in either direction along the way...that's where the reality of it all exists! Specifically, descent here is not a negative thing. It just is. The mountain is accomplished. What was has been...nothing needs more be said. Thus, the silence in the end...it is enough because it is has been lived. Fantastic job on this! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
To live our lives fully in the time that we have available to us! 🙏🏻🕊️
As a side thought - the mountain didn't manage to get you on the way down... disappointment on its part?
Ah, there’s that transactional compromise that pays off even in a less than David Vs. Goliath victory. 🙏🏻🕊️
Thoughts Changed. Climbing a Mountain or experiencing any Great Wonder would do that to a Person. Those People in the Space Station looking down on Earth ; It must have a life changing effect on them .
Yes! And our little adventures causing such great internal shifts may not compare to theirs in scale but the shifts are significant and real🕊️🙏🏻
That mountain of life is behind you Rik and it brought life to you.
Andy
So it has, Andy. Thanks so much🙏🏻🕊️
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