Rise To The Heavens

Rise to the heavens
Reach out through time
When lands collide
Let the mountains rise.

Rise to the heavens as all lands gather
Riding the storms within the Earth
In this brief moment before it seems
That all life will die
Something beautiful happened
And my Appalachians rose proudly into the sky!

Long ago, my mountains were the tallest
Before wind and rain had their say
But even today, only ignorant eyes
Can look upon these Appalachians
And call them "humble"
For they have borne skyward
The fractured remains of a time
That tell us about the forgotten age
Of a once different Earth.

Rise to the heavens
and unite distant epochs
For all lands became one
In the moments of your origin
And bear thee skyward the imprints of ancient times
For you are the mighty Appalachians
Old and beautiful
You are a testament of the Earth!