Gamarabi


Gamarabi traveled the world
Strapped to the side of a donkey.
Under waxing moons they walked
With a saddle bag and a blanket.

How low the roads would go!
The smell of salt by the seaside.
And passing strangers tipped their hats
As they trotted the beach at low tide.

And looking up they would see the stars
As they walked along the desert floor.
A brilliant sky that shows its face
To only those who travel late.

They passed a tree at the edge of a wood
That was creaking like a door hinge.
Black up against a darkening sky
Of indigo and orange.

And on they rode through wind and snow
Crossing creeks where brambles grow.
They wound up a path where the hills begin
And treetops were bent from Siberian winds.

Under waning moons they climbed and climbed
Till hills became a mountain range.
To unknown heights far away
To places where the sun is strange.


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