The Temple's Fool*

The Temple's Fool*

May All Climbers Climb
Unharried & in the Eye of God

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"Why climb you here?"
The crawler asked

“Why do you so unclad?

Hast thou a serpent in thy head,
That thou wouldst be so mad?"

The climber fiercely
Looked away,

As if he chided time

He said, "I am a climber, sir,
And climbers all must climb

I am the rarest of the rare,

The maddest of all men,

For where a temple rises high,
My climbing must begin.

I am a naked Son of Man,
Born in the vestibule,

A momentary act of God,
And this great temple’s fool.”