This Poem was Submitted By: Ken Dauth On Date: 2002-11-02 12:15:53 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Summit

From my room I saw a mountain. so I asked “What do you have to show me?” And I did not hear the reply. So I walked the foothills and asked again “What do you have to show me?” And heard no response. I started my climb and repeated once more “What do you have to show me?” And though I was close and near  I heard not a word. I climbed though out the day and glimpsed the summit. “What do you have to show me?” I wanted to hear the breath of the Universe The heart beat of the sun,  The thunder of the moon  And the whispering whims of a garden And all I heard was silence framed in the wind,  embraced by the clouds  and owned by the blue of the sky. I was awed to the familiar And did not mark the change in me I could not hear because I spoke I could not see because I was blind to all but one summit The summit is. the birthing pangs before the traffic ends. the lunch line, the walk to the bank  even the boot sequence of the computer. The summit is in the eyes of laughter. The summit is  Mountains, oceans, storms Or the enormous insignificance and yet sweet rareness of man. Kirabo (Ken Dauth)

Copyright © November 2002 Ken Dauth


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