My mountain
It was a sunny day
A lone mountain rose in front of me
Snow covered the peak
Fur trees dotted the base
And little patches of ice and snow lay on the ground at the bottom
This mountain was just one of thousands in the Sierra Nevada range
There was nothing special about it
But it was special to me
For at that very moment it was the mountain that I was looking at
The one I admired
The one I loved
It was my mountain
Mine to love
To see to watch
No one else in the world even knew it existed
But I did
And I loved my mountain and it loved me
And as the sun set in the west
And darkness fell all around
Until all was pitch black
I still saw my mountain
To me it shone like the bright stars in the heavens above
To me it bespoke of majesty and grandeur
A supremacy that the darkness of the evening and the night
Could never replace
For my mountain was there and it would be there in the morning
And it would be there for eternity
My mountain had lived for over four billion years
It lived right now
And it will always live in the world
In my eyes and in my soul
Much in life can be taken away
But my mountain will always stand
And I will stand with it
James Tucci
Miami, Florida
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