Mountain Path

Amber, orange & gold
Steamed up windows, damp clothes
Soft & rugged hills
Wrapped up bodies, cold nose
Fill your boots, your heart, your belly
Flood your eyes with many miles
Views long and wild
The mountain path
Hard not to follow
Every winding tangent
A whole menu of delicious food
A cabinet of cake and tea
Which to choose?
Green, brown or grey
Long nights, short stay
Soft & cosy bed
Kestrel, eagle, owl; feathered, fed
Fill your hours, your socks, your mind
Feast on many miles of conversation
Fires open and tired
The mountain path
Hard to climb
Every slippy, stone step
Like life's heartbreaks
A whole word of struggle
Every limb aching, for everyone
Which to lose?
A leg, a neck, a back
Two minuet sun shines through clouds crack
And the sky bawls
Tears rolling down the mountain path
So the sun glows
Through the earth, through the mud
And through the grass
Amber, orange, gold & brass