Too Much Here For One To See

I look to the sky and the blazing sun

Feeling like I’ve arrived, the only one

 

This place before me feels like home?

Should I never leave here, no longer roam?

 

God must have painted here, these very tones

Man has not touched this place nary a stone

 

Sitting, I gaze upon this beautiful place

Content, I wish to stay, leave the race

 

How is it that a site can affect me so?

I couldn’t retreat now if I wanted to go

 

I wonder aloud, here am I intended to be?

Perfect; sky, water, rock, quiet and me?

 

Feeling privileged as if near the Creator

My senses are whet like never before

 

There’s an urgency I feel but it’s odd

Like I can wait here looking, to see God

 

Wait I do, frozen really on this grassy lea

In time, I notice all, He is revealed to me

 

With sweeping glance again and again

I see there’s more than when I began

 

How could this be here, in its entirety?

Bigger, better, more efficient than any city

 

Hours seem to cram themselves into seconds

Astutely aware I long for time at this expanse

 

I came in by myself but do not feel alone

Arising, I wish to visit with each stone

 

All at once I wish to share this place

While wanting here, to witness just my face

 

I work to move among the vast scenery

Noting that maybe mans not meant entry

 

Time nor distance measure my rate

Only light or the lack of it track my fate

 

Once upon the floor of this earthly dimple

Closer inspect confirms my race, so simple

 

The beauty is all at once overwhelming

But still, nothing I’ve known more calming

 

Wandering among the divine, peace is mine

Hoping this space is the same for all time

 

The symmetry of societal plans exists away,

Away from this pastoral valley further today

 

Time is still, so am I, as it should be

For there’s too much here for one to see

 

Only the land prevents me from deliberating

Tranquil, I visit, the sound of my heart pulsating

 

Looking up I see water falling freely down

I feel no sound; don’t know where I’m bound

 

The flow disappears on the distant horizon

I move to the spot I keep my eyes on

 

Asking I wonder what I came here to see

It seems in this freedom I am finding me

 

The air is cooler the water again I spy

Calm at the base after the traverse so high

 

This cool spot wasn’t visible a while back

How long I enjoy it, I’ve simply lost track

 

Were there limits on the time I should spend?

It’s been night once since and I see no end

 

Then I wonder what pieces of this site

Will witness the sun setting tonight

 

I can’t guess the distance, or the time

Any checks vanish amid this nature sublime

 

Only the natural around including all sound

This freedom is true, the definition I’ve found

 

Waves of orange and red light another day’s end

In awe, man’s place I figure as God would intend

 

I close my eyes this time in hopes of a dream

Recounting this heavenly place aside a stream

 

This man, in awesome wonder, stops by free

Wishing all could encounter such majesty