You have to breathe twice as long<\/p>\n
twice as deep, up here<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It\u2019s funny how you get the same problem if you go too high,<\/p>\n
or if you go too deep<\/p>\n
at least down there you can hide in the darkness<\/p>\n
oxygen starvation isn\u2019t a pretty diet<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Hypoxemia is hard to come back from<\/p>\n
the view isn\u2019t reason enough to chance it<\/p>\n
you have to look for more, to look<\/p>\n
for those who went before you<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I kept climbing the side of this mountain<\/p>\n
because they were there above, packs barely visible<\/p>\n
tracks fresh in the snow<\/p>\n
voices carrying back through the quiet<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u2026And didn\u2019t I think I was clever?<\/p>\n
to place my own small feet in those footsteps<\/p>\n
to mouth those words, and finally feel the bloodrush<\/p>\n
when I rounded the last bend, and saw them waiting<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Well. That was all well and good<\/p>\n
until I forgot how to breathe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"