the blinding vista of green-brown mountains
floating away on the horizon
like a sharp intake of fresh chill air
smelling sharply of ozone
images that etch themselve
on the retina of the mind
that giddy feeling of being alive
felt through every pore and sense
an exquisite adrenalin rush
that chokes me, brings me to tears
these are the moments that shape
the unseen morality in our lives
unaided and unrequited, the morality that exists
that makes us human for a while
the guidance system of nature
checking in, ever so often
as you pass on so does it
in generations, building strength as it goes
unseen, untaught, unbroken,
the double helix of good and evil - the moral dna