Thursday, March 8, 2012

Fractured Fortress

The castle we built
is crashing down.
High walls tumble and fall,
and while I’m crushed
under the weight,
you try and place
scattered pieces back
together like a puzzle
reaching to the sky.

But it’s no use.

Its destruction,
its demise,
is done.
The fallen stones,
cracked and broken,
crumble apart and
turn to dust at our
feet, blowing away
in the wind and
escaping our
fine fingertips.

As we turn our
faces from the
ground and stare
into each other’s eyes,
the truth becomes real:
there’s no way back
to our polished, perfect
house of dreams.

So where shall we
go from here? 

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