Ephemeral Lesson

Your first sandcastle
washed away:

an ocean showing
nothing stays

perpetual
impermanence

now breakers
crash

and currents
dance.



Ephemeral Lesson © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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18 words (prompt limit).  Image (child on beach before waves) inspiration challenge prompt - link: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783470-Brevity---18-words-or-less
Submitted: July 14, 2021

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