Top of a hill

Once I Climbed a Hill

Monday, September 26, 2022

Once I climbed a hill 

And looked down with triumph at what I had done.

I saw sands stretched long in the heat 

A silver city beneath my feet

So I raised my hand to the sun

 

I saw my pinky blot out the great Golden Gate 

And my thumb, flatten downtown's heights

But I felt no power

No sweet satisfaction as a tower 

No sense of being a giant with might

 

Instead in me there rose 

 

A creeping, gnawing overwhelm with it all

 

As I lost all my pretense

And found a discomforting acceptance

Of feeling very, very, 

 

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