Literature
Mountaineer's Prayer
Mountain is a she.
With a veil of clouds she covers her face:
chaste and yet passionate.
Secrets unveiled
just for a moment
just for a blink of eye
she drops the veil and steals your heart:
the white beauty
Blind is this love.
Forwards through stone and snow, do not look back!
Mist in your eyes,
embrace of cold,
and all around
just whirling snow.
And if you come too close, she covers you in
the white darkness
Capricious and moody:
she's a proud goddess that cannot be subdued -
- humble and silent
you must approach,
prepared to pay
if she takes your heart...
...and demands your life as a price in
the white anger
To be