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Staying On Everest

Atop Ole Everest 
mountaineers delight
Your souls she can take
In darkness of night 

Her vengeance and beauty
Are one in the same
With wildness in her
She’ll never be tame

Almost to summit
So close to her peak 
Climbing on north side
Your soul she seek

Her fury has gripped you
You know you may die 
You try to be fearless
But that’s just a lie

Now you test fate 
Push towards her summit
With fading of light 
The temperatures plummet 

Zone of death
Now you prepare
No breath can you catch
Way up in thin air

Up on her summit 
Can’t stay very long
For if you do
To her you’ll belong

When she makes her choice
And she chooses you 
With her wrath and her fury
Not much you can do

To live or to die
Your willing to chance 
Eternally tangled
Her deadly romance

Rainbow of colors 
Spread wide thru her valley
Now you lay there too
And add to her talley 

So before you leave
Hold your loved ones tight
For there is great chance 
She claims you that night 

If she is hungry 
For your soul that day
They’ll already know 
On her mountain you’ll stay

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Date: 12/31/2022 4:48:00 AM
Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Welcome to Poetry Soup. I welcome you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." God bless you.
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Ronda Seymour
Date: 12/31/2022 7:32:00 PM
Thank you so very much
Date: 12/30/2022 12:36:00 PM
a great illustration of the fickle nature of mountaineering and the desire to be part of it
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Ronda Seymour
Date: 12/30/2022 4:50:00 PM
Thank you, so very much.

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