stray shot 2006 - The Gunnery

Bark EaterHave you ever seen true nature?A landscape that absolves and amends the insane soul?A view that could bediadem the most tasteless eyes?A site the sightless could stare at with an impermeable gaze?I have seen such a placeIt was a fortnight of foully selected camping groundsMy party hiked for days, and never did we find a decent encampmentWhile our morale decadently dwindled, we finally found our asylumThis valley was an aperture to the skies above.Across the river were we circled, we saw two twin mountainsA beautifully cleaved glacial valley stood in between.The zenith declined to rise and the sun stood symmetrically between apexesThe perfect silhouetteThe mountains were covered: lush white pine and paper birch.The dew from the trees evaporated like evanescenceWhile the river heeded to the northern windsThe life that drives, and the light that bindsThe echoing luminosity reflectingFrom the swans that sung, and church bells that rung(in this solipsism) No other thought worth recollectingHave you ever seen true nature?A site the sightless could stare at with an impermeable gaze?A place so perfect that it brings disease eradicating ease?A place where the lost run too, but the land finds them?I have seen such a placeAnd I know I have seenFor I am lost no more10