Parents are made - Children are built

PARENTS ARE MADE
CHILDREN ARE BUILT

Mountains are MADE.
	There is a recipe that no one follows
	because it was lost long before the first
	mountain appeared. This leads to the
	rightful conclusion that mountains
	are truly SELF-MADE.

Castles, on the other hand, are BUILT.
	This is how it happens.
	Stone, hand-tooled and roughly cut,
	is stacked at the whim of an architect
	with credentials more appropriate to an artist.
	The artist employs flair and imagination
	that occasionally lacks
	architecturally-engineered blueprints.

That the castle walls will inevitably collapse
	is really the artist’s unspoken intent.
	Over time, the stone loses its battle with nature,
	breaks apart, and crumbles.
	The ruins are scattered. Some are lost.
	Eventually the pieces that are left
	begin the long and arduous process
	of building a mountain of their own MAKING.

Build - Create

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