How quickly time covers
structures once thought permanent
lost and forgotten
leaving them now crumbling
as nature swallows them up
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Time and nature
having been here before us
will win in the end
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As we foolishly
think our towers of babel
will be our answer
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Photos: Dwight L. Roth
Foundations
No matter how solid
Crumble in time
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Photo: Dwight L. Roth
Shared on d’Verse Poets Pub open link night
Being a celebrity is like building a house on the beach
Knowing that, like life, it will not last…
Enjoying fame and fortune // living on the edge of disaster
Each sunrise more beautiful than then last…
Putting pilings into the sand thinking they will stand
Against the wind // the rain //and raging hurricanes.
But // everything gets old // foundations crumble
In time all will be buried in the sand dunes
Along with the misfortune of shipwrecks…
Skeletons of past glory that sometimes wash to the surface
Revealing what we all knew all along
Nothing lasts for ever
Photo of Shipwreck at Nags Head, NC: Dwight L. Roth
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