Challenge
Why is the sky falling?
Any format......
Cloudbreak
The sky is falling because we let it
forgot our Thoreau
built castles in the air, and infatuated
with their splendour forgot foundations
building them bigger, grander
to forget the world below
In our escape we neglected them
starting afresh when we were bored
just wasn't working for us
but how could we know for sure
when we never stayed to find out
kept moving, chased, perhaps,
towards that perfection we are told
to strive for or else away from all
that reminded us who today is
And now we command our children
to bring bricks and mix the mortar
for their castles shall be the grandest yet
so beautiful and pure, may they never leave
forgetting once more our lesson
the one we never really learned
that in reaching we find ourselves again
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