The truth about life.

Our lives are like sandcastles on the shore of a beach.

With each and every crashing wave tearing down another part of us.

And before you are able to recover another wave comes crashing down even harder than the last one leaving you even more broken and destroyed then before.

You try and rebuild and repair but no matter how fast you try the waves crashing down harder and faster.

Eventually you give up trying to clog the holes and suppress the flood.

You embrace the waves allowing them to come crashing down freely.

You know longer have the strength or even the desire to fight back anymore against the inevitable pain and destruction.

You have seen countless times what happens when you fight back.

Like little children though you believe that this time will be different then the countless times before.

But eventually you wake up and realize that all your work has been in vain.

It will not get better, no matter how hard you try.

The game is rigged, a happy life is a big trick, fool’s gold that people search here, there, and everywhere to try and find.

Only to realize it was sadly never really there in the first place.

It was only a figment of our imagination a hope and desire that helps make life worth going through to try and find.

Only at the end of it all to find out happiness was just a child’s fairy tale and dream.

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[RazzySkittles]

Heya Jeremy :)
I found this to be really well written. And easily relate-able. :) I am not sure if this is inspired off of how you feel, but I can say, I, in the past have felt similar feelings to what's described in your poem. :) If you are indeed feeling this way all I can say is once you hit rock bottom, the only direction you can go is up. :) I love the imagery you used to describe the feelings evoked in the poem, and how you used the ocean as the thing that crashes down on us (A.K.A The sand castles). It feels as though the ocean waves are events of life, and that their different timings means we never know what to expect from them, or when to expect them. This is a good poem. I would enjoy reading more of your work, I think you should, write more. :)