(LOST) GLACIER PEAK to EAGLE CAP | Land Above the Trees

[ TWEET no. 4,112 / X.30.2012 ]

#Philosophy?

The idea of AYN RAND as VICE PRES &

JOSEPH SMITH as PRESIDENT

ought to drive any sinner like me

straight into the voting booth.

LAND ABOVE THE TREES

Paradise only lasts a day.

Let Time stretch out to eternity.

Let Space open up to the stars.

The new ice you found at the spring this morning is already gone.

See that Lily over there: it only lasts an hour.

Write that love letter you've been waiting for for a thousand years.

Figure out those equations that Einstein knew he had wrong.

The sound of the rushing water mixes with the late summer wind.

As it always has; as it always has.

Your next life can wait till tomorrow.

PILGRIM'S PATH

There are many stones on the pilgrim's path.

Under each one lies another piece of yourself.

You trip, you stumble, you fall.

Sometimes, you turn the stones over

and find faded pictures of lost loves,

long lists of things you should have done, or could have said.

But here, now, at this crossing, which way to go . . .?

Down that jeep-track over there to the city below,

or follow this ridgeline up into the pathless country

of lord-knows-where?

Which way to go, which way to go . . .?

The sound of rushing water rises into the cool morning air.

It's time to go now,

Time to go.

VIII.21.2009,
Camp Lost & Found,
Eagle Cap Wilderness

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