I wrote this collection of words watching a pretty spectacular sunset in Nozawaonsen, Japan. After a bluebird day snowboarding the mountains being so close and tangible, to then so far away to other mountains and seeing so little. Two different views and experiences of the same thing, got me thinking and of course writing… so here it is! Big love O.J.S X
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Silky silhouettes of mountain peaks a simple outline with only little to speak
So majestic and still it needs no voice
For it captures every breathe of those whom behold it’s beauty, making them realise that in the grand scheme they are so puny
The top may look like victory, but the mounds so tall have so many facets you cannot see
So come a little closer, take another look, write it all down like captain cook, even still it would fill thousand a book
We’re not so different to mountains near yonder haze, sitting like fluid lines near the purple and pink sunset blaze
Soon you’ll see that the beauty isn’t always found on the peak, it’s also in the cold snow, the valleys so bleak
The mountains, you see are more than a drawing of 2D, in that respect they are much like you and me
Like parts of you hidden ten feet in a white canvas; a covering. Protect and hide things like your heart, yet never let it become smothering
They are filled with trees, dressed with garments of soft pure snow, who knows what else underneath there grows
Like a multifaceted kaleidoscope of colours and shapes we are, so much more than the undulated lines, a mist, a vapour in the distance so far
So many types of trees, soil and deeper still the minerals within. It reminds me of our humanness and our brotherly kin
How we are all shapes and sizes, with our dents and holes, if we can see past the superficial the warts, scars and moles
We are all the same at the core, of this I’m sure!
So may you be as steady as a mountain, unshaken and certain
May you see past the blanket of snow, past the facade of what we choose to show
May we be like those mountains that stand together in unity
With tons of love and not a shred of scrutiny