I scaled the steeps I hit the heights The view was awful nice The rock I'd roped Didn't hold And down my only goal I crawled the cliff On the edge Clambered Scared Scurrying from scar to crag Slipping Scratching a grip on the scree Scrambling Senseless till I could clutch the earth's moist crust And tread on plain terrain It rains there There are no more buffalos In the wilderness of woe I now wander And wonder Why the sky Tricks my eye with its partner in crime The ground where I wished to found My sunset Together they target My weakened sight Hurling horizons of helpless hope at my plight Heaven and Earth bending, blending Merging into impotent lovers Shamming a shameless caress I call their bluff They cannot touch The mirage reveals they are foes I do not belong here On plain terrain All is plain But the ravaging savagery of sorrow That burns my soul to a hollow From which I must depart And once again Ascend the mountain Wherefrom I lost my heart