Long Lake

(Photography by Eberhard Grossgasteiger - found here)

When I awoke in the night

and slipped out of the tent,
I saw a beam of light below.

Someone was out late
or up early, a very strong
flashlight in hand.

Then I looked closer:
the light came from the dark,
still waters of the lake.

Above the lake,
the black silhouette of a mountain.

Above the mountain,
the morning star.

In the lake, the light
of the star, shining upward.

                            —John Muir Wilderness

~Paul J. Willis