Sandcastles

Empty words

Words
Thousands and millions
A million grains of sand
Can still build a castle
A castle that'll blow away
Into the storm of reality
No scaffolding of will
Words are just noise...
Nothing to gain
Once in ruins,
Abandoned
No looking back.
Sun is below the horizon now
Just fly away up to your summit
Leaving me in these ruins
In the gloom...

Reviews

[Kate AKS]

All words are empty and made of sand; we allow ourselves to believe that what is in front of us is concrete. Like the wind could play with pages of the dictionary, moving around it didn't make a poem. Sand castles are as fragile as everything that we prefer to keep. 

[Senu Jayasinghe]

Thank you for your comment Kate.

[Einstein Noodle]

words can be empty no doubt, Senu .. i like the metaphor with sand, sand castles and especially the scaffolding ... without a firm foundation and proper cement it all comes tumbling down in the slightest of storms .. thanks for sharing!
E.

[Senu Jayasinghe]

Thank you for the comment ☺️

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I really like the scaffolding part...very creative.
we create poems, they blow away....
we create love, it blows away.
Then there we are alone and in the gloom.
A good song that fits this poem..."Ruins" by Cat Steven....

[Senu Jayasinghe]

Thank you Jacob.

[Senu Jayasinghe]

You meet someone and start to dream, bare your soul to them just for them to have not meant a word they said. The dreams you thought you had together were just sandcastles. They leave you destitute in the ruins of these dreams.
Words are just noise if there is no follow through.