wall

wall

brick by dry brick
walls we build

mortar of blood
and bone

hold them
-- seize them tightly

together

-- in

rooty-toot-toot
of rowdy-dow-dow

in meaningless stretch
of preposterous incarceration

this void of circumstance
this temporary inconvenience

error in divine judgment
perpetual dysfunction

-- ex nihilo

from nothing
we have appeared

to nothing we shall return

parody heaped upon
lampoon

bricks rise in columns
wall grows in glower

illusive as vaporous
entanglement of long-gone

long-gone
nowhere relived

redone, reconstituted, re-undone,
after -- longed for -- gone again once more

more dreary than a rainy fall day
-- medals tarnishing on soldier's uniform

won -- he said
for valour

guarding
the wall.

vcp




Poetry by Victor
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Written on 2016-11-16 at 11:40

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Jamsbo Rockda The PoetBay support member heart!
Brilliant. You gave it a great ending too. We all have our walls to fight for.
2016-11-22



Very touching, Victor. We construct our own walls for the protection of our selves. Do we do ourselves harm in doing so?
I don't know, but I have walls of my own that make me sad but I feel I must have. Excellent poem.
Ashe
2016-11-16