Preposterous Tales
Slime sprayed walls in ghostly grey
A lonely skylight signals distant day
Ocean waves, irrepressible
Rush into this dismal hole
A millennium crowd of stallions
Cheering for Wales
I cross the chasm, friction’s edge
And spy an even darker cleft ,
dripping all my nightmare fears.
With every move, my task to bridle melting mind
trust the un-trustable , doubt the un-doubtable
Inch by inch, step by step
Testing, resting, testing, moving
An hour? An age? I cannot say
I find relief in belay’s warmest welcome
With pounding heart and sweating brow, I call
My patient friend below to climb
You cross the self-same chasm, teeter, slip
Arachnoid suspended, a fragile thread
Silhouetted ,
The whirling maelstrom , stallion no longer,
but viper striking at your heel
Up the thread, your prussiks take! Go!
Inch by inch, step by step
To waiting friend, relief at night’s dawn
Subsiding tension, pint at hand
Now just another epic to be told
Just another gripping story for the road
Hopefully the last!
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