Mountain Crown // a poem

the mountain crown //

my insides turned out 'til you

your heights and views amidst

the dark shadows of the night time

and the early morning mist

the moon followed me through cities

filling more as days go by

in this pocket full of summer

I burn alive

with the midnight mountain air inside

but the detours sharpen teeth

and the road blocks linger round

in one hand

the world gives you what you want most

with the other

it tempts to bring you down

pins and needles across the surface

but libations do the trick

I won't let old horrors haunt me

for my skin is growing thick

with burning rage and open cage

I let my devils dance

our twisted games of tempt and fate

I once used to fuel distress

the licks of flame we danced around

old me's I burned away

my shadows starve

the light runs wild

i'm coming out to play

eyes fell as I did with them

to a place of in-between

where my bones became the earth below

my blood

laced evergreen

skies painted shades of new

my breath caught up on the clouds

I don't want to know what happens next

I never want to climb back down

from way up in the castle

I take in limbs of new

with each flick I feel the visions fade

I fall more in love with you

I'm tracing back my steps now

to the old I reminisce

things once tangled at my feet

I burn away with one last kiss

like streams my hair pours down long

my steed plays joyful at day break

with all this love to give I waited

wanted

I choose instead to take

I seize my soul to battle

let go the grip of reign

its warmer than it looks outside

from me

these casting rays

the world is calling me below

its time to come back down

how do I say what happened here

still lost yet somehow found

with each step down the ladder

bare feet find the earth again

with new air that lifts these wings of fire

water having found its mend

my soul rose from the summit ash

life glistened from the ground

I reach and grasp a cutting edge

I found my mountain crown.

photos are by: Anna Kova

http://www.annakovaphotography.com

this girl is an absolute artist with the camera -- thanks for making me look like a mountain princess