So It Went

The sun shone its fiercest rays on her skin

Bit by bit she fashioned her castle, unleashing the imagination within

In the tropical heat and its painful glow

Rhythmic to the waves crashing high and low

She made a citadel raise out of the shore as majestic as she could

And headed over for more sand to build her world as she said she would

When a huge tide bellowed over it, backstabbing and cruel

Leaving a heap of remains, bringing her castle down to its last jewel

Though let down initially, the crash only strengthened her resolve

To build back what she’d made and lost in the dissolve

Bit by bit she rebuilt, now with ace and experience to embrown

Alas, the next big wave, mighty and merciless brought it down

And so it went, she ploughed on with erecting her structure

Undeterred and dedicated to every single fracture

The sea waves hitting her with the impermanence of life

And she replied with her human tenacity so rife

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