1
Who says
I blocked out your view
It's just that
You're standing
Under my feet
2
Plains people
Get a wide open look at the world
Mountain folk
Must climb peak upon peak
And stand on summits
Before they get to
Open-eyed wideness
Coast dwellers
Have profoundness
To their thinking
Mountain folk
Must mount peak after peak
And approach
The sky-void
Before their thought
May deepen
3
I could be flat
Too
But why
Would I want that
Why would they
Want me to fall
Prostrate
On the ground
Isn't it better
To stand
4
This isn't the snowline
This is a white pure khata1
Offered up
To those brave enough
To scale it
5
Believe it
As long as it's a mountain
At a critical juncture
It's capable of making
Its peaks
Like wolf teeth
And gnash
Their iron bones
