Looking Back

by

Everything
Breaks
Down
In due time
Rome wasn't built in a day
But it crumbled
All the same
A pantheon
Turned to dust
And an era long gone
But we don't begrudge the rubble
For its fall
Nothing can last forever
After all
The passing moments
Fires
Winking out
We celebrate its
Memory
Things break down
Places
People
Left behind
As the world spins ever and on
Until it too
Crumbles
Nothing lasts
Forever
So remember
What
They
You
Me
It
I
Was.