POETS UNITED - MOUNTAIN

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” - Edmund Hillary

For this week’s theme, Poets United is featuring “Mountains”. My contribution below:

Geography Lesson

I know a desert much vaster, more arid than the Sahara;

An ocean deeper, greater, more extensive than the Pacific,

A mountain higher, grander, more proud than Everest.

I know a place much quieter, more deserted than the deepest sea;

A place much colder, far more desolate than the Arctic,

More lonely, more forlorn than even the tiniest of desert isles.

A vast parched plain are my lips deprived of your kiss;

An endless ocean are my tears that will not dry,

A haughty pinnacle my pride that will not forgive you.

My loneliness a wordless, silent void;

My heart, a frozen, icy wasteland as you left it;

And as for my existence, that still at least remains,

That tiny desert isle that you but once almost visited...