A trailhead waits in the moonlight there
as I race down a highway to escape my despair.
I go onward and forward and faster towards
the mountains that will bring me unseen rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The forest glows by the light of the moon,
And an eerie presence prevails as I arrive too soon.
for the journey is what this place is about
the journey to myself where I can find out about<\/p>\n\n\n\n
all the things that I’ve hidden deep within a soul of mine
‘coz I can’t bear to think of what I’ve lost in this life.
The world outside beckoned and these mountains called
And I welcome the challenge to ride them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are moments of bliss and moments of joy
as I carve down the mountain, a gleeful little boy.
Perhaps just a past-time, no, much more than that:
It is an eternity in each moment, you can’t take away that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For gravity and focus, flow and arcing turns,
something I long for and will forever yearn.
The bicycle’s freedom, and my soul thus restored,
keeps bringing me back for more and for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I’ll take on the challenge and I’m ready now
And I’ll be there tomorrow as the mountains arouse
within me a spirit that I’ve not know before
within me the key to open this door<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To another world beyond the moments of my soul
To where I can feel once again whole.
It is just a pastime but much more than that,
It is what I live for when I think about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so I’ll discover myself in those turns,
and I live the trail and forest and curves,
I’ll share with my friends this, who I am
And I’ll express on the mountain what I know I’ve become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And much more than this and to be true to myself
I won’t take on the mountain–I’ll take on myself.
It’s myself that’s the challenge not the mountains there
It’s myself I must conquer to really go there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A trailhead waits in the moonlight there
as I race down a highway to escape my despair.
I go onward and forward and faster towards
the mountains that will bring me unseen rewards.<\/p>\n
The forest glows by the light of the moon,
And an eerie presence prevails as I arrive too soon.
for the journey is what this place is about
the journey to myself where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-introspection","category-nature","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}