I DIE HAPPY (After scaling Nevada Falls, Yosemite)

I die happy

For I have seen

The part of my soul that I left behind

It was happy

to see me again

And led me in discovery of hidden trails

And discover I did

on stairs hard and narrow

twisted paths beside thundering cataracts

Vistas my mouth muted

as I agape stood

humbled by ancient granite majesty

Bed rock scraped

by nature's fickle fingers

Glacial milk dissolving a dynasty

Evolving a cathedral

leaving slender sentinels amongst

Ancient remnants of geologic expansion

Blessed is the path

that helps reconnect 

 remnants of Souls left behind 

Waiting for fate to decide

the swing of the tide

apart yet in together's future

And knowing that 

I met today what I left behind

I die happy