It loomed before me
a wall I’d only glimpsed before
built with bricks
I’d stepped over
in the past
It blocked all passage
barrier to where I wished to be
an obstacle that reached
as wide as high
and had done all along
It would not move
I could not shift it
mortar bound, its rigid face
growled down
and all around
And so I climbed
I found the footholds
the nooks and crannies
I stood abreast its height
and saw for miles
And there were others
at either side of
finding ways to scale
to reach that place
beyond the wall
And high upon division’s altar
hand in hand, we made a chain
we linked and found that
on the other side of walls
we were the same
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