I scaled the steeps

I hit the heights

The view was awful nice

The rock I'd roped

Didn't hold

And downed my only goal

I crawled the cliff

On the edge

Clambered

Scared

Scurrying from scar to crag

Slipping

Scratching a grip on the screen

Scrambling

Senseless 'til I could clutch the earth's moist crust

And tread on plain terrain

It rains there

There are no more buffalos

In the wilderness of woe

I now wander

And wonder

Why the sky tricks my eye

With its partner in crime, the ground

Where I wished to found

My sunset

Together they target my weakened sight

Hurling horizons of helpless hope at my plight

Heaven and earth

Bending

Blending

Merging into impotent lovers

Shamming a shameless caress

I call their bluff

They cannot touch

The mirage reveals they are foes

I do not belong here

On plane terrain

All is plain

But the ravaging savagery of sorrow

That burns my soul to a hollow

From which I must depart

And once again

Ascend the mountain

Wherefrom I lost my heart