The Sideways Mountain - SCP Foundation

Words

of a man

reaching out

to me; I cannot

deny them, music

to my ears, like the

Piper's song I walked

to with the other children.

It's hard to think of mountains

going upward when you've lived

so long with them sideways. An oar

paddling on the upside-down lake. I am

sorry for my kin, they are but bones now in a church's

garden. They are watered with their own tears so

the single rose a bishop lays there grows. Life

is strange now. I feel lost in the neon signs

and the upwards mountains. I think I've

made my choice. There is no place for

me here, Earth is not my home. Men

are not my brothers. I am going to

live where the tune of his pipe

brought me, and I will kiss

the world that once had

the cottage I lived in

goodbye. I will live

out my days

climbing.

-found on a piece of parchment at the bottom of a small hill in Lower Saxon, Germany by local Agents.