What makes The Mountain
out of a man?
No matter what befalls
The Mountain..
The Mountain firmly stands.

You will not see
The Mountain
swaying back and forth.
The Mountain
leans upon nobody else..
because he is
his own support.

Nothing perturbs him..
not a hurricane
and not a tempest..
not the ebbs and flows
of other people’s will..
who bind themselves
to rise and fall of tides,
to whistling and calming
of the winds.

What need he has of them?
When he already has his own..
Solid as rock, embodied in him
through his flesh and bone.

And as for those
who purposefully try
to shake The Mountain..
through whichever forces
they may choose to throw..
The Mountain
dutifully avalanches
back upon their head..
and not in equal measure..
but tenfold.