A vast beach of empty white
for a time, we count the grains,
too busy to see the emptiness,
but we tire of the counting,
we feel the emptiness within us
and we make castles of the sand.
In time, the castles are lapped away,
and the emptiness returns tenfold,
compounded by the loss of what was.
We build new castles,
and in time the loss fades,
but we never forget what was,
and shall never be again.

Adjectives are, almost always, meaningless. Particularly when you're constructing an emotional landscape from a literal one. Try, for example, falsifying punctuation while doubly employing your tropes, something like:

An empty beach we count grains
busy ourselves to not see
emptiness. We make
castles of sand and
castles are lapped away
and we count we build
new castles
and.

Existencil crisis: that moment of mortal dread when, after a lifetime of having understood and obeyed the rules but perhaps not yet fully grasping the consequences of breaking them, you intentionally color outside the lines for the first time.

I mean, I like where cato was going, and yet you still had to bring lotus cobra into it?

I was just expanding on the human race's eternal search for meaning! XP

A true philosopher would keep their puns at the end.........

Thank you for taking the time to read through my poem. Now I feel bad about being too lazy to read through your short story.

No biggie. I was eventually going to cash in my evanescent cat points and make you read it anyway.

You've earned enough catpoints with your clever posting and insight into limited to make me read it.

How does one earn "cat points"?

~SE++

Do things of which I approve.

I think I received cat points on one occasion, but I can't recall for sure.

I stopped putting them in my sig, because I'm lazy, but I'm pretty sure you got a lot from making NGA.