This Birthday Wish

This Birthday Wish…

Inhaling these wild and impossible dreams, like the scent of wildflowers carried on these warming winds… Perfect, tiny ephemeral jewels of life’s possibility, scatter across my alpine horizon.

Exploring fingers drift across perfect arching ridgeline spines,

Traverse through soft verdant valleys and beyond.

Summer sun open these new paths, soften long hardened snows.

Scatter the settling stones of stifling memory, sloughing consequence.

Wade with me into this gushing alpine stream. Finding clarity in this needed immersion.

Lost and found again in this slowly warming thaw from winters passed…

Slipped perfect moments recovered in this ache of freedom. Opened possibilities in a life unbound.

b.b. July 1, 2014

Exploring the Indian Peaks ©Bennett Barthelemy