Forget your perfect offering...

"Ring the bells that still can ring,

Forget your perfect offering...

 

 

The Ultimate Bell Tower...

 

The Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Precarious, yet standing still,
Breath-taking in person, and
Beckoning with challenge.

 

Dare to climb her stairs, tilting all crazy!

 

 

 

 

 

Such power the old stones evoke,

centuries of hands have worn them to a sheen.

 

Legs ache and lungs burn,

circling ever higher,

the reward is sweet beyond belief!

 

 

An impromptu aria sung by a fellow traveler
accompanied by the circle of bells...

in the pouring rain no less!

 

On the way down,
a moment of quiet,

a reflection of sorts,

how something so crooked, so defective,

so flawed and imperfect,

can charm the soul so utterly...

 

 

 

 

"Ring the bells that still can ring,

Forget your perfect offering,

There is a crack in everything,

That's how the light gets in."

                                          ~ Leonard Cohen