We are all building monuments,
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We build monuments to our successes, monuments to our pain.
We build monuments to our offenses and monuments to our gain.
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We build them with stones or stories, rocks from along our way,
Our thoughts polish and cut them, our words place them,
Putting them where they stay.
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We are all building monuments, to our glory or shame.
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Rocks of accomplishments,
Rocks of offense,
Expectations, actions, or results,
Stories of glory, wealth or pain;
All build our monuments and nothing is the same.
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Wounded warrior, victim, loser, ruler, one of superior state,
We declare ourselves in our monuments.
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We are not our monuments,
We are not our pain.
We are not our expectations.
We are not our stories.
We are not our offenses, glories or shame.
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What we do with them, Ah now that is the true game!
We are all building monuments,
To our glory or our shame.
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Monolith Image of: 2001 A space odyssey found here;
https://ksamaarchvis.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/2001-a-space-odyssey/
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