Up and Down (audio)

One foot in front of the other…up

We climb and climb and climb

Rocks and ridges, trees and streams

Natural nature, nearly pristine

The lake below like smooth green glass

Deep, shallow, deep, vast

The mountain beckons

And all around more mountains stand shoulder to shoulder

The green rises into the rock into the snow into the bright blue, pointing to heaven

The summit scene like something in between

Up…there isn’t any more and yet there is

and down…we can see enough to know we can’t see it all

take it in…breath it in…every breath so sweet, the way air is supposed to be.

One foot in front of the other…down

Return to what was, but don’t forget what is

The view will never be the same.

You’ve been up and down.