Sacred Mountain

although far away from
the soaring sacred mountain
still I am feeling
something like a fountain

of inner wonder
at circumnambulation
walking all around it,
a mystical sensation -

unforgiving
altitude and weather
three days walking
devotion as the tether

onwards and upwards
over snowy rises
into windy canyons
with mani stone surprises -

Milarepa's monastery
still standing and still facing
the mountain's gleaming shining
on the human race in

stillness, with the promise
of Shambala's revealing
the reason sacred Kailash
attracts and is appealing