"Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair."

Perhaps the poem is conveniently short, and that is why so many of us are drawn to it.

Maybe it is because it reminds us of the pride cycle in the Book of Mormon, which we have all likely read. (We are students at BYU, after all.)

The most fascinating thing about the poem Ozymandias to me, is the way that it affects those who view it. It is a testament to something once beautiful, and now destroyed. A question left forever unanswered. Who was Ozymandias? What were his works? What happened to his supposedly great empire out among the sands?

We are left with no story, only the last few words of the "About the Author" section.

Perhaps that is what draws people to this poem, which has been repeated in pop culture for decades.
It appears in the comic book series Watchmen at a key point in the story, and is the name of one of the characters' alter ego.

It is used as the title for one of the final episodes of Breaking Bad.

It is heavily modified and recounted by a villainous character in the trailer for a recent videogame.

The poem speaks to us, because it tells us that the mighty will fall. The humble shall inherit their reward, the meek shall be made mighty. The mighty shall be laid low. Justice will be upheld, if in no other way, than by the passage of time itself. One day, those mighty men will be just as forgotten as the average man, and just as lost in the ocean of humanity like a single grain of sand in a desert.

Or perhaps I am wrong. And if I am?

Then I suppose my opinion is like a pair of trunkless legs left in the desert, with a nearby inscription:

Look upon my Blog, ye Mighty
and Tremble.