Andrew Carnegie Poet I do not know?

Walls

In my youth I recall
A song by Pink Floyd
Called 'The Wall'
It Discussed
Where Fear Resides
Deep Inside
Behind Tortured Eyes


I suppose I should have mentioned
A Berlin Wall
Of Cold War Tensions
It Arose To Demarcate
Philosophical Differences
Of Nations States
Killing People



It stood topped with razor wire
Machine gun towers
From which to fire
Cold Grey Concrete Slaps
Separating A German City
Owner Occupied via sights
It lacked anything to do with pity
But then after all
What are walls for
But to surround and enclose
So those who build them
Can wriggle their toes
Sleeping safe in summer nights
Ignorant of outside fights

Man has built walls
For generations
A Chinese One
A celebration
Hadrian
When all said and done
He built one and not for fun

So now today we hear the news
About how politicians
And the media
Wish to steer our views
An american
Working hard
Uses one as an election card

And what about Greece
Where Walls of Wire
Now are preventing release
Of a situation so dire
We changed its name
From part of humanity
To being a refugee insanity
For what we know
Because History
Tells us so
Is that Walls appear
When we live in fear
And are unable
To find an answer near

So what does that say
As we wend our way
In Wiltshire and Sunny Somerford
Do we raise a glass
Yell Kiss our 'hand'
Accepting no human brotherhood
Can fit in our Porsche


Is that the correct course
Is it at all feasible
That civil unrest
Will create a test
That overflows our peace
Bringing War Near
And Not just Greece

So I'd like you now
To take a hand
Of someone you love
And imagine
If you'd take a stand
Join the push and shove
To save them

For each wall now
Each brick
Is a mark of fear
As it rises tall
There are no surprises
For we hide with walls
Whats on the other side


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Joseph Jeremiah Naye January 9, 2017 at 2:14 PM Walls may be built like the biblical tower of Babel, but the human mind can't be walled like the walls of ideologies separating North and South Korea. Great poem, I love it, the Berlin wall coming down in 1989 readily comes to the fore the collapse of "iron clad" U.S.S.R. in the 1990s. I can relate with this. Andrew Carnegie January 9, 2017 at 2:54 PM Thank you, glad you have enjoyed it :-) Joseph Jeremiah Naye January 9, 2017 at 2:19 PM

Probir Gupta December 19, 2016 at 7:30 AM The fragmenting and imprisoning walls very competently highlighted ... an eminently readable poem ...Very good ... Andrew Carnegie January 3, 2017 at 3:36 AM Thank you so much - I have followed you to express how much I really appreciate your kind words - apologies for the delay - its taken some time to understand how to reply