Cloudbreak

The sky is falling because we let it

forgot our Thoreau

built castles in the air, and infatuated

with their splendour forgot foundations

building them bigger, grander

to forget the world below

In our escape we neglected them

starting afresh when we were bored

just wasn't working for us

but how could we know for sure

when we never stayed to find out

kept moving, chased, perhaps,

towards that perfection we are told

to strive for or else away from all

that reminded us who today is

And now we command our children

to bring bricks and mix the mortar

for their castles shall be the grandest yet

so beautiful and pure, may they never leave

forgetting once more our lesson

the one we never really learned

that in reaching we find ourselves again