COULD IT BE?

Photo by S. Auberle

COULD IT BE

that sacred
and scared
might once
have been
a single word?
We, in our ignorance
and arrogance
have cleaved it.

- mimi

Several Easter dawns I climbed this
rock (just to the base of the top) and
sat there, listening to the Hallelujah
chorus on my headphones. Sometimes
the awe I felt scared me, like I could die
right there from the sheer beauty of the
red rock valley before me. This area
was known to be sacred to early Indian
tribes and there are those present day
people who believe the rock to be one
of the vortexes, or power spots of the earth.