<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410764" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sandcastles</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a dark - Foggy day.<br>When I decided to venture ahoy! <br>Ahead, onto the beach.<br>To face its sandy dunes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So thither, I headed.<br>Passed via coastal road.<br>Through bleak shrubberies.<br>Which masked every approach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finally ended, saw my goal.<br>Those sandy dunes.<br>Mile, after another - They extend.<br>Fill me with awe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I waded ahead.<br>Arrived, sat upon a sandy reef.<br>Alone, for now.<br>Reminisced of you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of love, future we need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With nothing but my awe.<br>A seagull, or two.<br>Sparrows, swift and few.<br>To keep me company.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saw - In the distance.<br>A wall of clouds.<br>Thunder and Rain! <br>Storm, it would bring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet avoid me.<br>I proudly deemed.<br>My little spot.<br>Upon the sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I mused.<br>Decided to use.<br>This unusual pause.<br>To my advantage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus I built my castle.<br>Onto the sand.<br>Beside the sea.<br>I built it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dug a mighty harbor, beside it.<br>A breakwater, ramparts to secure it.<br>To guarantee, my dominion.<br>Upon the sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It had cannon of twigs.<br>Flagpoles of grass.<br>With flags and banners.<br>Made of flowers, I chanced upon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it was, stood for an hour.<br>Then foundered upon the first noon tide.<br>Its purpose defeated.<br>By nature's might.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I built another.<br>Smarter, I deemed myself.<br>Placed it higher.<br>Inland, it seemed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It rose soon.<br>Better, mightier - More impressive still.<br>With banners of leaves.<br>Garrisoned, by sea-grass tufts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As soon, as it arose.<br>It disappeared.<br>Washed away.<br>By a sudden burst of rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So yet another one, I raised.<br>With towers tall and strong.<br>Proud walls - Lights! <br>Windows, moat and all…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No tide, no rain ever.<br>Could have washed it away! <br>But after a minute or two.<br>It dried - Sand was bleached.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Began dripping away.<br>One grain, at a time.<br>Slowly, surely eroded.<br>By the passing of time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sun, each gust of wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it gradually fell.<br>By the grain.<br>Until nothing remained.<br>But mounds in the sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I determined myself.<br>The wiser, keener.<br>With experience - Intellect! <br>Decided to build another one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A castle again.<br>Made from tiny little stones….</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ilari+Rahja">Ilari Rahja</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410764" data-title="Sandcastles de Ilari Rahja" data-description="It was a dark - Foggy day. When I decided to venture ahoy! Ahead, onto the beach. To face its sandy dunes. So thither, I headed. Passed via coastal road. Through bleak shrubberies. Which masked every approach. Finally ended, saw my goal. Those ..."></div> </div> </div>

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