MERU

          I

The invisible mountain of the gods
Meru is taller than twenty Everests
But getting to the top is simple.
You may find yourself there
At the end of a troubled sleep
The problem is finding a dream
Willing to carry you back down.

         II

The conclaved gods decreed
Five-peaked Meru did not exist
For how could they ask the Earth
To bear a mountain larger than itself?
No decree lasts forever. Someday
Meru will return, bringing back
All those who climbed her

Thinking she was real.