Mountains of mystery grow and crumble. Mountaineers conquer the peaks and some stumble. Poets dream, And the fearful hide. Hero cries echo in the crags that crack the skies. Burning volcanoes exploding with sulphur, Tall shadows forever hiding within her.
Sweeping tsunamis destroying with rage, Peace is the ocean that brings this age. Sailor that loved her she buried below, Lovers that saw her were lost in her glow.
The Terra Firma, We walk and are buried. Like a mother She fed and has carried.
The blood of the martyrs and murderers she caught, The food for the children and the dying she wrought. Sometimes barren and bare, Or green without care, Her arid, her acid, her ice and her air.
So much mystery, So much madness, All her ecstasy hides her sadness. So much history forged with newness. So much truth, so many truths lost in transit.
Our touch, Our taste, Our mind, Our breath-
So much to mention and much left out. So much discovered and been found out. Words can never amount or count, The dim reflection, The horror, The magnificence.
The other side, You.
Copyright Martin Hugo 2010- From The Law of the Rat