Aspiration

“Himalayas” by Grażyna Smalej

 

striving for the summit

the capstone who laughs

granite bleached by the sound

rumbling confident tumbling

through temples of glaciers

leaving humans disabused

of their impudent dreams

grandeur belongs to this

rarefied realm where no

purpose runs shallow where

pride is reserved to deep

eons of unsullied motives

though now and then men

may ascend their adventure

their destiny rarely will rise

much above the repichnia

marking the burrows of worms

 

 

From my book Ephemera