The Greater Design

The Greater Design

Let it all come together, 

the design

the structure.

The towering height.

What is design but a vision

So also is structure

but sketches

With shape, form, matter.

The engineering, the technical literature;

that goes with it, 

The concrete, 

the steel, 

the knots, 

the bolts. 

Is that all?

The reason for it to look a certain way,

The reason for it to be there.

Man the creator 

An expression of his own greater creation

Running parallel

Vivid manifestation

Lifting his pride 

Beyond imagination.

That towers over him

Mute in its magnitude

More faith on his offspring

that colossal

that child 

that other

He lets it stand 

Totally assured 

Shall not fall

He would have his hopes high

On his child 

to never fail

Faultless creation

Offspring 

Faulty himself 

His belief

Limited, 

But in the greater design

Of things

In the continuum 

That compounds in silence 

Nothing towering, no self-doubt

Creeping.

In the larger scheme,

But the semblance,

Be it pitfalls, be it doubts,

All stands tall,

Powerful architecture 

Design by default.