build and crash

Your steel ball swings on a rope of chain,
hypnotic violence; suddenly,
there's rubble, and empty space leering.

You build with slow clay bricks, your thoughts, stone.
Painstaking palaces. Suddenly,
you release your swinging sphere, smashing

the space that you had tamed; now, blank air,
beckoning sabotage, silently.
Dust ascends, needs renew, you rebuild.




Form: a ninesquare.

A ninesquare has nine lines, each of nine syllables, divided into three three-line stanzas.

The first line of each stanza must contain nine monosyllables.
The second line must contain three words of three syllables each.
The third line must have a one-two, one-two, one-two syllablic structure.
Free reign with syllabic stress, use of rhyme optional.