La Caida de Mochu Pichu
The early wisp flowed across its breath as the morning came
knocking to reveal the ancient deeds of men. Stone circles and walls lay
scattered before the dawn. Only the wind calls the names of those who
lived here. Only solitude reigns, where once this refuge held; the many
more who lived the lore and braved this lofty trail.
What life took place within this Keep, upon this grassy summit steep.
But no one knows the story true, but only those, the martyred few; who
ran before Pissaro's hand in search of castles made of sand;

More than mystery visits here in stark remembrance of the few that
disappeared. Though they never left, they simply forgot and exchanged
their idols for a cross, that weights them till this day in burdening stoop;
Only a colorful ghostly parade of the original glory remains in costume,
dance and weathered face. On a rocky crop a Condor sits to behold the
past within the present and the far flung craggy approaches to this place
in its thin air, hanging on a precipice of the majesty that was and the
beauty that is, Mochu Pichu.