Words Like Granite

[The Rider]

Nothing is certain but entropy and gravel,
For what we thought were boulders in the dawnlight
Have been chipped down to dust motes, floating in moonbeams.
It's surprising how much faith we put in a phrase
And that, when it inevitably crumbles,
We don't always expect the landslide it begins.

[caelycate]

i really like this. very short but because of that, it is even more powerful.

[The Rider]

Thank you very much Caelycate!

[firefangled]

I will think of this one next time I walk on a beach.

Very strong poem.

[blazeofglory]

Of course it is very interesting and touching.

[PrinceMyshkin]

It has the solidity of the granite it refers to, and the compactness adds to the monument-like authority of it.

[blazeofglory]

Nothing is certain but entropy and gravel,
For what we thought were boulders in the dawnlight
Have been chipped down to dust motes, floating in moonbeams.
It's surprising how much faith we put in a phrase
And that, when it inevitably crumbles,
We don't always expect the landslide it begins.

These lines are charged with emotive ideas, here uncertainties prevailing over life and the works of man and their pettiness is really telling.