Time

Time. 

While statues fall to dust and nothing is remembered,
we fear you not Ozymandias; it was a poet who brought you back into history. 
 Words survive the onslaught of time,
 for each generation of poets words are written differently, 
but the message is the same: Do not forget you are mortal! 
Beauty and power are ephemeral.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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