Secrets of the Himalaya

I whisper… In a nearly inaudible voice Softly but firmly… into your ears The insatiable desires, the irreversible regrets, the off the limits dreams the unspeakable aloneness. So selfish of me forcing you to embrace the sums of me Into your extensive universe Along with the immense weight of the secrets Up the mountains and down the rivers Oh, this unbearable cradle of burdens The undulating figures of yours, contouring like the lovers’ naked bodies Seductive, mystical, exhilarating, unsettling… Soaring high in the sky Spreading across to the world’s end Then disappearing into these clouds of fluffiness Clouds, as white as light as the whipping cream, elegantly sitting above the mortal world, like a delicious layer cake. Just when I thought I had lost you You proudly stick your snow-capped heads up, up above the oceans of clouds Longing to be admired, caressed and eventually conquered. Now all that secrets Infiltrating every pore, every limb, every vein of your bodies My pulses, my spirits echo yours; and my heart, of course There is no escape, one we are Burying and interwinding life’s mystery into each other For the thousand years to come. Life born and reborn Stories told and retold, lived and relived Reincarnate into unrecognizable forms and shapes. But I know somewhere and everywhere in these sacred mountains Dotted with my hidden secrets Secrets only shared by the occasional skeletons of the unlucky trekkers Or a few random lost souls, here and there