Folly by the Lake

"a great useless structure, or one left unfinished, having been begun without a reckoning of the cost"

The brain struggling
To represent
Its self in words
Like these returns

To conundrums--
The container
Of everything
That shapes nothing,

The memory
That is present
To make the past
Pretend future,

The social self's
Follies rotting
Beside the lake
In all weathers.