Cathedral In The Clouds

To Clammer Admidst The Lofty Heights
Where Scattered Thoughts Arise, Before
our Snow Blind Eyes A Wonderment
On Earth Resides A Majesty That
Few Have Seen Perched So
High, The Eagle Cannot Fly

Stretched Out Before Your Ice Torn Face
God's Finger Has Created A Place
That Almost Reaches Space
Only The Bravest Soul, And Strongest
Heart Has Ever Seen This Land

To Fisher, Hall, And All The Rest
Like Stalwart Sentinels Stand
They Stay Behind And Bring To Mind,
The Mountain Can Be Unkind

Mt. Everest, You've Claimed The Best,
And Beckon To The Rest

" Come Forward If You Dare, And With
Reverence You May Share
The Highest Place Towards God's Face
And There; Leave No Trace . . . "

J.J. Oakley