We Build Our Walls So High. Poem by Sandra Kavanagh Josefsson

Poem 282.

We build our walls so high.......

We build our walls so high
and block out all understanding.
We build our lives on what we do,
the prestige and the siding.

We do not open our mouths,
for fear of alienation.
We go with the flow,
even with our disinclination.

We do not question anything.
We do not use our brains.
We accept without discord,
that is how we are trained.

And we keep saying 'this is mine'.
and we build up hoards of things,
which will end up on a dump someday,
with the dust and cobwebs and the overlay.

We came into this world with nothing.
We will go the same way.
Take down your walls of ignorance and mistrust
and let love weave through the decay.

Verse: Sandra Kavanagh (c) .
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