Monday, June 3, 2013

The Trouble With Walls by BJ Neblett

The Trouble With Walls
by BJ Neblett
© 2005, 2013

The trouble with walls is
            They can’t feel
They can’t distinguish between love and hate
They just keep things in as well as out

The trouble with walls is
            They have no eyes
No way to see the loss without
No way to know the soul within

The trouble with walls is
            They cannot taste
Outside the rain is as bitter
As the tears that are shed inside

The trouble with walls is
            They cannot hear
Longings of loved ones echo back into the night
The cries of despair are absorbed deep within

The trouble with walls is
            They have no heart
They know nothing of suffering
Have no capacity to understand

But even the strongest of walls are flawed
For they cannot contain the spirit of man


                                    Boston, MA

                                    June, 2005

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