020: I was complacent when I first/climbed these mountains and...

I was complacent when I first

climbed these mountains and

they ate all my society and left

me wild and finally sane

I came out here to search for truth

and always returned naked

having found only simplicity and

the brief possessions to maintain life

and the impossibility of virgin wind

I am drunk only when swimming

in these floods of wind

opening my mouth to swallow

their sweet drowning intoxication

I relinquished everything

and danced naked

in the middle of desire

face to face with my spirit

and looked upon it without fear

I went out seeking only

to find the mystery

which devoured me

stripping me to the integral

leaving only what I came to feel moving

in deep currents between these peaks

the divine wind that has been hiding

in my own lungs right next to my soul

and every time I exhale it sings rejoicing

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