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