AMERICAN SKYLINE

They raised this building twenty years ago;
But now the Board declares it's out-of-date.
Am I naive? Someone, please help me know
How one mere score of years can antiquate.

They'll blast it down in twenty seconds flat
With well placed charges deep within its heart;
And when a new one sits where this one sat,
The passing of its own brief years will start.

As our desire for changing things has soared,
We've shaken more than buildings out of plumb.
Cathedral spires that mark a Heaven ignored
Have been preserved for a millenium.

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Fun poem. A closing couplet

Fun poem. A closing couplet would turn this into a full-fledged sonnet. A note: It seems like you might be stretching a bit to the stray for your rhymes. You could revisit your end-stopped pairs and find more-natural rhymes. I had some trouble with this in my earlier work. I would end the first line of a pair, then work my way backwards for the second half. Once I learned to work on both parts of the rhyming pair at the same time, I found myself more able to rhyme in ways that were easier for the reader to accept.

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