Pillar

Being the pillar is tremendously honorable and equally lonely.

All eyes look to you.

A sense of duty fuels its purpose, holding all things up and all things together.

Admiration eclipses the fragility of a pillar that is so often unsupported.

Strength is not the absence of weakness.

Strength is not the same as invincibility.

Yet the pillar is expected to be both.

Perhaps pillars don’t experience pressure and physics as the rest do.

Perhaps that makes reciprocation easier to overlook.

Pillars don’t ask for support because it is what they are designed to do.

Is it wise not to protect the pillar from the elements?