Walls Make Bad Neighbours
Walls Make Bad Neighbours
‘All in all we are just bricks in the wall’ deconstructed by Pink Floyd
when they called for a truly kind compassionate reflective society and
~ Education ~
Of John Lennon we may think that he was ‘a dreamer but not the only
one’ to 'give peace a chance' while discounting violent revolution in
~ Resistance ~
Wolf Biermann sees his father’s grave every time smoke ascends from
some industrious chimneys of so many concentrated crimes against
~ Humanity ~
‘What will the neighbours say’ goes to my parent’s generation when
they continued to live the secret of why they colluded with fascism and
~ Genocide ~
Karl Marx clearly saw the alienation of humanity and that ‘knowledge without
action’ was a false shallow unfinished philosophy and empty
~ Promise ~
The Scorpions called for ‘winds of change’ but are they a-changing here and today
while most of us sit on fat gluttonous bums or size zero buttocks of
~ Delusion ~
The fake golden staircase leads from Zeppelin to Zeppelin with hot air
between the sheets of so called progress on eves wasted droned into
~ Oblivion ~
Nena’s ‘red balloons’ popped out of nowhere but into nothing’s blip of
conscience forsaken Nirvana and waning sound bites of candles extinguished by
~ Destruction ~
If we want to surpass the walls of our prisons we might want to consider
removing that one brick at a time that barricades and constricts our quest for
~ Liberation ~
The freedom of justice and the freedom from the walls in our minds as our
children will lay cries of despair at our door with only us to blame in
~ Shame ~
We are the guardians of posterity but which side of the fence are we
sitting on in our greed racism intolerance xenophobia and egotistic
~ Denial ~
When we sow winds we will reap storms and the flood gates will open
yet transformation makes better neighbours and better companions than
~ Walls ~
15th November 2016
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Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2016
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