Perfect Pillars

Brick by brick

hands organizing their plots

erecting the pillars 

towards the heavens dreamed.

 

So precise in the calculations

every detail careful planned,

painting a portrait

of the pending success

carefully crafting the image

with steady air brushed strokes

from confidence’s brush

until each flaw disappears

and what remains is the vision,

pristine and perfect

utterly exquisite in its splendor.

 

It is all the before profile,

optimism’s artistry so precariously balanced,

upon a bedrock of presumptions

guaranteed to become a fulfilled prophecy

providing not a single second

affords one variation in the facts.

 

Beginning construction with such ardent zeal,

convinced this toil is sacred and destined,

right up to the point

an earthquake strikes

turning the soil you thought was solid

into quicksand.