I stood on the edge of
a great mountain
I bathed in streams of
snowmelt, cold and clear
My lungs like a
bellows, pumping my heart
I lived in a world of
little oxygen
I contemplated deep
philosophies
There were no mysteries
to challenge me
I spoke to God, and god
spoke back to me
The divine word, resounding
in the light
I looked down on the
people with despair
I despised them, the
unworthy masses
I cut my leg on a sharp
stone, and fell
A pathogen set in, and I
grew ill
My wound became discolored,
infected
It crawled up my veins
in jagged red streaks
I needed antibiotics. doctors
Despite my constitution,
I would die
I was afraid for my
life, mortified
By the ease with which
I was struck down
I lost the mastery of
my ego
My self-satisfaction
turned to loathing
I was afraid, now, of
death and darkness
Fever and pneumonia nearly
took me
My powerful lungs, turned
to feeble sacks
My muscles became flaccid,
I was lost
I lived in a wheelchair,
I could not work
I had no skills, I
became dependent
I stewed in contempt, bewailing
my fate
My lost holiness, my
former station
I waited for the god I
once walked with
To lift me from this
world, to transform me
I became obsequious and
grateful
For the few coins that
were dropped in my cup
For the small sum of
funds given to me
Deposited each month in
my mailbox
I discovered the vice
of alcohol
I measured a new form
of endurance
How many days and
nights could I stay drunk
I lost the bet, and
died in an alley
I fell from my
wheelchair with the garbage
Face down in my filth
and my excrement
My spirit rose, lifting
from the valley
I saw my mountain tall
and forbidding
I cringed as I ascended,
fearing God
Soiled as I was, and
miserable
Broken as I was, unwashed,
unshriven
I rose past the cold
peak of my mountain
Rising higher than I
had ever dreamed
The bright sun touched
me with its tongues of fire
I was burned...burned alive,
I was burned clean
By the brilliance of the
spirit, love
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