Ode to a Mountain

What if devotion could feel like resting your forehead against ancient stone and hearing your own heart answer back? We open the door to quiet with a warm invitation and hand the mic to poet Lea Evergreen, whose Ode to a Mountain transforms landscape into beloved. Across two intimate minutes, Leah’s voice traces a path of surrender—falling to the knees, bowing low, and letting go of the known—until stillness becomes sanctuary and steadfastness feels like a living presence.

We explore how repetition can work like breath, each return dissolving a layer of certainty and revealing the relief of not knowing. The poem reframes “being killed softly” as a tender unmaking of ego, where false performances of love burn away on holy ground and the heart is signed by something larger. By shaping the mountain as lover, witness, and teacher, Lea taps into an archetype that resonates across spiritual and poetic traditions: the quiet authority of the unmoving. It’s a listening experience designed as a micro-retreat—ideal for a tea, a pause between tasks, or a moment before sleep—where imagery, cadence, and voice blend into a brief, grounding ritual.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome To Voice Within
• 0:08 Settle In With A Cup Of Tea
• 0:39 Introducing Leah Evergreen
• 1:10 Ode To A Mountain Begins
• 1:21 Surrender To Stillness
• 2:00 Timelessness And Return
• 2:39 The Beloved’s Signature

Transcript

SPEAKER_02: 0:02

Voice Within, a collection of short stories, letters, and poems narrated to you. Get cozy, warm cup of tea in hand, take your ears and imagination to places a number of authors aspire to take you with their tales.

SPEAKER_01: 0:39

Ode a Mountain was written by as a love poem by Leah Evergreen, and with great pleasure she's also narrating this piece herself. So please enjoy this moment of reverence, a love poem to the magnificence of man and a mountain for the gift of the steadfastness and stillness. So take that cup of tea, warm it up, go on, bit of poetry for your day. Enjoy Ode to a Mountain by Leah Evergreen.

SPEAKER_00: 1:21

At your feet I fall to my knees, dying to bow low, destined to love you, to be killed softly in your still presence, your steadfast greatness, the all encompassing essence of absoluteness wrapped around me. At your feet I fall to my knees, dying to bow low, destined to love you, to be killed softly, to lose my foothold on known reality. I long to not know, to fall into nothingness. At your feet I fall to my knees, dying to bow low, destined to love you, to be killed softly, surrounding my resurrection into your timelessness. At your feet I fall to my knees, dying to bow low, destined to love you, to be killed softly. All my forms that come from you returning to you. At your feet I fall to my knees, dying to bowlow, destined to love you, to be killed softly, where all that masquerades as love is burnt in the holy carnal grounds. At your feet I fall to my knees, dying to bowlow, destined to love you, to be killed softly by a million kisses that sear a signature of the beloved on this heart.