Cracks Filled by Diane Webster

I am not strong like brick;
I am strong like mortar.
I hold my building together
by filling in cracks
so my bricks work
in pyramid power to wall
the outside out.

But my grip weakens
and cracks sprint through
the cracks I once filled;
I lose myself in chunks and powder
fallen at the feet of my building
unforgiving even though I grovel.

I am dislodged from my bricks
to lie bedraggled in heaps
while my bricks stack squares
awaiting bricklayers to assemble
them into a new building,
and I am allowed
a below-ground role.

Diane Webster's goal is to remain open to poetry ideas in everyday life, nature or an overheard phrase and to write. Diane enjoys the challenge of transforming images into words to fit her poems. Her work has appeared in "El Portal," "North Dakota Quarterly," "Eunoia Review" and other literary magazines.