YOUR LIFE IS A MONUMENT

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822): Ozymandias(1818)

1

Your life is a monument

to your mistakes, whose

malign influence, across

the generations, shall

long last its fall;

yes, built hastily,

from bad materials,

with little planning;

nevertheless, it suffices.

After all, its fall is near.

2

The monument is gone,

but the lone and levels sands

are littered with white bones,

in each of them the marrow

of your long failure.

31.12.2022

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