JOURNEY

wearing a thick fog
the mountain ventured
into a nearby valley

as suddenly and silently
as a mountain could
if it so choose

the night also
aided and abetted
its efforts

it splashed through
a wide river and over
a geographical border

to the next country
without anyone
being anything the wiser

it saw towns
and more humans than
it had ever seen in its life

the noise and activity
troubled its thoughts
and it turned and returned

before the new day dawned
it decided to stay
in the place where it was

born
clutching a morning to itself
winking at me

telling me to tell
nobody
of what I had seen

of its wandering
or the thoughts
that lay

sleeping
in its great
granite mind.

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From the Bible. It is recorded in the 1582 Rheims Bible, in Matthew XXI 21, as: "If you shal haue faith, and stagger not, ... and if you shal say to this mountaine, Take vp and throw thy self into the sea, it shal be done."