To All You All

Crumbling is not an instant's Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation's processes
Are organized Decays —


'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust —


Ruin is formal — Devil's work
Consecutive and slow —
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping — is Crashe's law —


Emily Dickinson