Love Poem: From This Place I Beheld a Mountain
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Written by: Sean Swain

From This Place I Beheld a Mountain

As I wandered broken stumbles
slips and falls and crawling muddy
from this place I beheld a mountain
and the mountains moved me.

So, this fragile life, empty and long,
I filled with dirt and rocks and stone
and carried by bucket load
in  callous hands and gnarled fingers
screaming protest of fragile life
too abrupt to move a mountain.

But this bucket worn and battered 
swears its oath upon all that will be
that I shall move this mountain 
before again it shall move me.