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BRIAN’S POETRY CORNER

THE BERLIN WALL

THE BERLIN WALL IS DOWN, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

BY A COUNTRY DIVIDED IN TWO;

THROUGH FORTY YEARS AND A MILLION TEARS

THEY SHOWED WHAT WAR CAN DO

A RACE TORN APART BY IDEALS OF MEN

WHOSE OWN AMBITION WAS CLEAR;

TO LEAD THE BLIND WHILE TRYING TO PRETEND

THAT THEIRS WAS THE RIGHT COURSE TO STEER

SHUT OUT FROM THE WORLD SURROUNDING THM

WHERE TIME IT DID STAND STILL;

DEPRIVED OF THE SIMPLEST OF ITEMS

AND CHILDREN WERE TAUGHT TO KILL

TILL FINALLY ALONE THEIR LEADERS GONE

TO BASK AMID THEIR PLUNDER;

A PEOPLE EMERGED, EVERY DAUGHTER AND SON

TO A RECEPTION LOUD AS THUNDER

“WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, WE’VE WAITED AWHILE

WE WISH YOU’D NEVER HAVE PARTED”;

THEY OPENED THEIR ARMS AND SHOWED LOVING SMILES

FOR A WAR THAT NEVER WAS STARTED

(C) 1990 BRIAN C.