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 ‘