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Mt Blanca
green and white sign
"Welcome to Colorful Colorado"
greets my eyes
as Mt Blanca rises
smooth and elegant
as a wedding cake
draped with fondant
late April snow coated
majestic and proud
reaching up through the clouds
it strikes the home chord
in my heart deeper than
the tourist town I love
to leave
and return to
but never stay
tourist town's not home
it's home-base
Colorado's my home
I just don't live here
(or anywhere)
anymore
but for a couple of months
I babysit a kitten and a pup
breath thin air on Pikes Peak
pan gold on Cripple Creek
celebrate my aunt's 90th
reunite with my cousins
and hike some woods
it will fill my soul
with the energy I need
to smile and be free
from strange longings
for strange things that
titilate but don't fill
the emptiness
or bridge the distance...
dear home
where I was born
raised, educated
initiated
and launched
into this frenzy
yearning and hurting
I come back to you
kinder than my first love
and fairer than my last
in your bosom
I bury my sorrow
and feel no shame
I'm not defeated
but wounded
deep enough
to be made whole
preciosa Mt. Blanca
after your wedding dress slips
down your bare shoulders
to the rivers and creeks below
I'll stay with you a while
long enough to be refreshed
by your water
and sustained by your beauty
with fresh hope from within
that whatever in this odyssey
I've been out of and in
I haven't lost my love
no
she's sunning herself
up around the river bend
waiting at the summit
of some forgotten trail
singing love songs
in an old honky tonk
or pouring coffee
on route 66
in the end
she's the loveliest
sweet icing
on this delicious cake
but until she's
on my lips
I'll love
Pikes Peak
Cripple Creek
and you
Mt Blanca
Copyright ©
Steven Young
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