Posted by muffled on June 6, 2007, at 14:19:41
In reply to an apology...esp to Llurpsie, posted by Dory on June 6, 2007, at 10:42:52
When you stand at the edge of the rocky mountains, seeing them loom above, you wonder, how will I ever get thru?
Then you get started, climbing mountain after mountain.
There are passes to get between and then thru to the next mountain, and on it goes.
Hard , hard work, climbing those moutains.
Scrabbling thru scree, buffeted by wind, tired, hungry.....then it starts to rain...and your wet and miserable.
Yet you go on.
Hard hard hard.
Where is the next pass? to the next valley? Is there any end to these accursed mountains? Are the valleys all going to be lonely and lacking food or water?
Is there ever going to be a place for me to stop, just stop?????
I am tired of the mountains, the wind, the rain, the rocks.
Tired on lonliness.
Yet I keep going.
Find the next pass
to the next valley.
There I meet a man.
He tells me, follow the stream.
So I do.
I meet a little girl, shes crying.
I give her a hug, she smiles. Say go over that ridge.
I wander, lost.
Then a lady comes to me, and says come, come with me.
I do.
I am so tired.
We fight our way thru the underbrush, and come to a valley.
There's a community there.
They have food, they are mostly kind.
They help me.
I rest.
I wanted to give up a thousand times in those harsh mountains.
I'm glad I didn't.
Cuz here, in this valley, I still struggle.
But sometimes,
the sun shines and warms my aching damaged bones.
I smile and bring warmth to a lonely old man.
I draw beautiful pictures that bring joy to me and to others.
I have days where my bones ache a little less, and they are good days.
I send a mail to my friends, who were in pain, who missed me, who thot I was gone.
And I heal inside, alittle bit at a time.
ITS SO SLOW.
But its comming.
And it feels good.
And I shared my chocolate bar with a sad man on the street. And we smiled. And my heart sang.
And I am alive, and I felt my heart sing.
And it was good.
m
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