Sandcastles

Prompt: WRITE ABOUT A TIME THAT YOUR ILLUSIONS OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WERE SHATTERED. 

Like a wall 
the ground beneath my feet
sturdy and tangible.
My back against the cool hard surface provides comfort
of familiarity, rooted in the reality
gravity pulls us downwards
towards the earth and we can still stand upright.

I lean against this truth
this fortress we built together 
brick by brick, each wall carved from the parts of us
of darkness and light 
a magnificent, luminescent structure
that was built against the elements;
a miracle of possibility

The winds billows
The setting sun casts shadows, the bricks tremble,
In the night, the corners of our castle chip away
reduced to grains of sand
Is the castle still real if it returns to the wind?