Tag: Utah

The vantage of elevating myself

There is no better way
To understand the path I must follow
Than from the vantage point gained
Through the hard work
Of elevating myself

From a high vantage
I scour the world below
Seeking the scattered points of reference
By which I’ll find my way
When I visit the low ground

I keep in my heart
In my mind
In my spirit

The possibility
Of the impossible

Were there no eyes to see
Would there still be
A universe to see

If the bumblebee
Could do science
What world would its textbooks see

I think of this canyon
As old
Until I reflect
And recall

The sandstone
Began to rise
Some 200 million
Years ago

Leaving the water to carve
An infant, a toddler
The geological child
Of a mother, Earth, 4 billion years old

There are places on this earth
Where time is the answer
To every question

Time, and Nature
In harmony

Monolithic sphinxes
Bask in sunset rays
While I bask in the presence
Of geological time

Feeling
very small
and finite

I love these wide open spaces
With their sparse grasses
And iron red soil

I love a sky
Unobstructed
Cloud-filled and a little ornery

“Ugh! This thing stinks!” lamented the youngest.

“It’s shaking me to bits!” the middle sister garbled, her tongue flapping against her lips.

“Quit your complaining!” croaked the eldest. “Would you two malcontents rather walk in this foul heat?”

We’ve tamed the river
Far below
A dam built down a ways

The Colorado
Takes a pause
Between a hundred million days