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<a href='archives.php?PHPSESSID=8b8c4b8a54cc6157005df6d5bd9df75a'>archives</a><BR>I saw amazing things at the top of the mountain,
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Such strange things!
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I could no sooner describe them to you than I could
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A smile to the blind,
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A lover's touch to a bitter old man.
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It had taken a lifetime to reach the summit.
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Not in reality, mind you;
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Only a few minutes then,
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But as a culmination-
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As a feat, you see-
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It was lifetime's work.
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Every time a peak seemed close enough to touch,
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Another appeared above it,
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Always a shortness of breath away.
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Wasn't it only right
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That when I finally came to the top
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My reward should be so great?
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Eventually, of course,
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I had to start back down.
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You can breathe in magnificence
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Until your soul is saturated,
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But you can't eat it. Or drink it.
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And I was getting hungry.
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I gave up heaven for pop tarts.
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And the climb down was every bit as difficult;
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Meager goals make the body languid.
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I got in the car and drove off.
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Up ahead there was a bigger mountain.</BODY>
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