I sighed at the mountain before me
Impassable and insurmountable
Full of color and fetid odors
The accumulated growth of an eternity
This would not be an ordinary task
To scale this beast to its zenith
The climb will be tedious
It will leave me drained and dried
There is nothing to do but begin
Legs first followed by the arms
Sometimes gentle sometimes bulky
sometimes hot, sometimes cold
The color gives way to pure white
The end is near, my breathing raspy
For I have washed my separated laundry
Everest conquered, now the folding begins.
Most of Karthik Viswanathan's writing is in an esoteric language known as ABAP, the programming language of
the ERP software SAP. Karthik enjoys the IT consulting work he does and is a fledgling author of a few poems (all
unpublished).
