Mountain top Perspective

The vastness is full not empty

As some flatlander would have thought

Against the backdrop of this beauty

Your existence is barely a dot.

It's plumb full of silence

A Silence that roars in your head

I've been there and I heard it

And I know what the old timers said.

It's clear as some passing memory

Of the coldness and the blanket of snow

It's as close as the chill that has numbed me

But helped me to discover and grow

The mountains demand you remember your lessons

They are stern when they give you your grade

They require lifelong commitment

And character improvement is how you are paid

The reward lies in the lands beauty

And the silence locked up until Spring

I sit and ponder it's mystery

And wonder what Spring winds will bring.

With Spring will come snow melt

As the mountains unleash the force

My life, my hope, and my future

These mountains, the Rockies, my source

My source of all inspiration

I worship in their stillness at last

In this, God's greatest cathedral

At the top of some mountain pass.