“Aha I have conquered the peak!”
A young man exclaimed in joy,
Reaching the summit of the mountain,
His companion smiled and said lovingly,
“My dear, a peak higher still, I conquered last month”
A bird watching the couple said laughingly,
“Ah what fools these humans are,
These peaks and many more,
I have conquered since I was young,
Every day I do it, and I don’t make a fuss!”
The mountain hearing them said amused,
“I am the mountain, I am the peak,
I stand majestically above it all,
These little things are here because I let them,
Yet think they have conquered me!”
The wise earth hearing all of them, had a good laugh,
“Ah my children, when will they learn,
It felt like only yesterday this mountain child was at the ocean bed,
I stirred and he rose steadily up,
My other tiny children are amazing too,
They are born, grow up and perish,
At such rapid pace I can’t keep up,
They do amazing deeds, frightening deeds,
Sometimes I wish they just be at peace,
Whatever it is they do, they go back into me when they are done,
Conquerors, rulers, sages and simple folk,
So many I have seen, many more I will see,
So much they struggle, why I do not know,
I hope they realise, they are one with me and one with it all…”
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