Challenge
"Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand..."
"...but we must build as if the sand were stone." Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry or prose.
Jagged
Lingering labor of love, but a distant memory - a jaded, faded dream
Spreads particles of regret's remorse, scattered sand in a desert’s storm
Reverberating aftermath taunts, haunting with no chance to redeem
The wistful weep of ebullient emotion that will not be conformed
Let it lift to drift on the wind, scatter like sand amongst the ruins
For no stone edifice lingers here save residuals of the deepest frown
Love was nothing but deceitful dreams spun in idealistic illusion
Scarred shadows of a lascivious love are all that lingers to be found
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