build a wall
You labor long
With diligence plan
With mortar strong
The task is all
The process new
Each time you build
With all of you
You wrench your heart
To place the last
Then comes the can
Graffitied, passed
This poetry
Comes from your life
Not another's
Triumph and strife
You want to say
What's just and true
You search your soul
And then just do
Trusting spirit
Experience and mind
That you may write
Discover and find
What 'oft was said
But ne're so well'
Your precious flower
Your child heart’s well
Then venture forth
Present to group
Turn up their nose
And call it poop
You slowly turn
They gave you gall
You'll go and build
Another wall
You know it takes
Some time to mend
Your heart's been stabbed
They tear and rend
Whatever seen
They cannot do
Presents a threat
They can’t let you
The snide remark
The one-line quip
In envy snap
And crack their whip
Those who dream
And those who build
And those who lust
Just to have killed
Unknowing blithely
Slicing through
It's just the same
Graffitied you
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