Sunday 21 April 2013

THE MAN IN THE MOUNTAIN:



She heard the call of the voice on the cold nightly breeze,
She followed its beckoning through eerie forests & trees,
Over hill & tor, leading her to the high mountain of stone,
Where she walked searching, step by soft step & all alone.

Looking all around her, then up in the rock she saw the face,
Looking upon her, she knew the voice came from this place,
Of craggy nose & eyes of painful caves, grey gouged of stone,
She knew this mountain once had soul, flesh & bloody bone.

Every dawn she´d go to the face of grimaced lip made of rock,
Where the moon lit his brow & to where his heart was locked,
The bat sorely warned, the owl hooted & the wolf cried in pain,
The raven scolded as she passed, but every morn she came again.

Man of rock fell deeply in love & a heart stirred within the maid,
She felt his heart of stone beating in the wind & she felt so afraid,
Romance was impossible & it could never be lived nor ever loved,
She daily paid him homage & he adored her silently from up above.

The rumbling shook the earth & from afar was felt & loudly heard,
Men ran, there was fear from the sky, from the beast & every bird,
Shaking, rumbling & trembling ended & silence once again reigned,
Only wild wind was heard above the hysterical laughter of icy rain.

The moon smiled upon the old mountain, where the face had gone,
The maiden too had disappeared, where the sun now happily shone,
There was one teardrop running down the cheek of the ancient rock,
Where mountain-man once lived & where the raven no longer mocks.

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