Sikkim Pictures - Yumthang Valley and Zero Point

Yumthang Valley

Zero Point

Zero Point - behind that glacier about 20 miles is Tibet

Me and the German ladies drinking millet wine

So silent you stand, and so hushed the river

Fifteen thousand feet, a new world, your own

And the rest could still fall

And here would stay silent

And here would bear witness

And not judge the crimes

You make no apology of the ice in the river

You make no apology of the wind in December

And let me walk in the dust and the rock

Apart and above and without much a mind

Naturally you say this far and no farther, and

Naturally all but three or four oblige

And despite all our efforts to meet you, you remain

Further away somewhere far like the clouds

I am permitted to stand on your ground

So that we may bear witness to one another

In the air so thin

And the dry cold winds

We come for a moment

And breathe one breath together