You teach a quiet lesson: strength is not in noise. It is in remaining. In enduring the typhoon, the silence, the slow crawl of lichen over stone.
In the morning, fog fills your valleys like a forgotten language. Cedar roots grip the steep slopes, patient as prayer. The foxes know your paths; the clouds bow before your ridge. You teach a quiet lesson: strength is not in noise
Some come here for battle stories — steel and fire, carriers named after you that sailed into legend and sank beneath waves. But you are older than war. You are the mountain that watched the samurai sharpen their swords, then watched their swords rust. then watched their swords rust.