Monday, February 29, 2016

Utah Youth

Do you need those glasses? 
Why not clean them off a bit, 
Lift the dust and grime, 
And see clean through crystal. 
Or better still, why not chuck 
Them over the side of that mountain.
From inside a basin, or from up there on the 
Mesa Arch, see this tilting Earth?
Let the One who made it sing you to sleep
And wake you up tomorrow with new vision. 
These layered mountains tell the story 
Of your fourteen years, all your striated hurt and glory. 
I wish everyone could see you 
Clean through their glasses.
Your mind and heart a symphony unheard,
I wish it could echo loud through these mountains. 
Pain eroded you, and the sediments collect deep. 
Maybe if we yell loud enough it will bounce
Off and disappear.
Or do you need a quiet
Wind to brush the pain off your shoulders?


© Emily Brown, 2016

Bryce Canyon, Utah
Photo by Jean-Christophe Benoist
from Wikimedia Commons

1 comment:

jean said...

Touching and beautiful.