Great, Fallen, Wailing Wall

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. - Thoreau

to be fair

my life is there

somewhere

along with nimbleness and lost hair

mordantly finer and finer

stacked like a christmas container on a misguided, cargo, ocean liner

thicker than thick but alone

if i only could remember which stone

pride cometh before the fall

for the great, fallen,, wailing wall

of china

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Author's Note

"As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Zoe Richardson]

Oh China...soul crusher of billions. Perhaps along with the Thoreau a little Shen Tzu?

[Pete]

walls can come down a lot quicker and easier than putting them up. thanks zoe ... :)