OZYMANDIAS

My name is Ozymandias.  

Look on my works ( please ).

I build cathedrals with phrases.  

I plant gardens with pages of print. 

I erect towers of poetry and prose.

I sow fields with words,

Words that scatter on my page.

Like seeds from the sower,

Some fall on fertile soil

While others land on barren.

I tended them as I could

And nurtured them when I was able.

But seasons can end without a harvest,

And so lay the broken towers of Ozymandias

Rising from the desert

Whose ruins hint at grandeur

And only the sand remembers the glory. 

This work may be the only sign 

That I passed this way.

Let it stand for a while.

This has been a Piperguy48 production

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