ground floor

ground floor

 

your righteousness is like wrongful death to the heart

you tower in your dreamlike stance

oblivious to the weak foundation you lay

 

within your own architecture,

building faltering relationships

with empty skyscraper splendor

 

your eyes, the trowels

that flick mortar aside with 

reckless abandon and fleeting smiles

 

while others climb the stairs

of sensitivity

painstakingly, one at time

 

their purpose passing windows of winsome longing

to detonate your ambition,

and rework the building plans

 

that put you together

with such tactless walls

of ego.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

10/11/15

Reviews

[JayceeC]

It's hard to build anything multifaceted when you can only see things from one dimension. Sadly, those multi-dimensional people, will only try to fix things for so long before they realize that total destruction is the only answer when the foundation cracks and shifts over and over. Relationships are like skyscrapers. Some are nothing but functional, soulless, while others are a thing of beauty. Loved the overall metaphor, but especially ego as wall. Well done as always. Jan

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Jan...

j.