the ascent
i'm a mountain climber though i have only reached one summit i remember ever step, every agonizing frigid breeze the rush that filled me as earth as i knew it got smaller i remember getting to the peak and the bliss that filled me i saw the whole world from up there and for a while i believed the molecules of water that make up my body had found their home at the top of the troposphere. as i descended the peak i remember feeling the sky pull away from me ive never forgotten about how i danced with the clouds and the wind, but i wonder if they have forgotten about me. now i am back on the earth, even earth my limbs and my lungs tired and sore and somehow the earth i once saw as mountainous mine to conquer is flat