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Poem Collection - MythOfHappiness - 13. Beauty and Water
Sometimes I think about beauty and water.
How one is impossible without the other
I think about the way the Colorado sunset
Slid into that crystal lake and how
There was no one around but me
And the silence and the wind
And the way that the beauty of it all
Struck me, and how I was sad
Because I knew that I would only feel like this
A few times in my entire life
And I knew that this moment,
This perfection,
Could never last forever
Because then it wouldn’t be perfection,
Perfection has to be rare in order to exist at all
I think about the way that the ice on the mountain looks
When the snow pours from the sky
Deep in the winter
And everything is white,
And the cold burns your skin wherever it can reach
And I climb, as high as I can
All the way to the top
And I look over the town and I see the people
In their cars and their coats,
Stumbling through the ankle deep powder
Fighting the cold as they do whatever it is they’re doing
And go wherever it is they’re going
And I think about how it all doesn’t matter
And I think about how it all matters more than anything
And I’m lost for a moment,
Before I realise that it’s not supposed to make sense
I think about how,
A long, long ways away
There is a little house
On a bit of land
In the middle of nowhere
With a muddy creek running through it
And how I can get up and go to that little house
And everyone I love will be out by that little creek
Eating too-small hamburgers and burnt hotdogs
And laughing about something, anything at all
Sometimes I think about beauty and water
And how I couldn’t live without either one
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