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Weeping Wall

Weeping Wall

 

Weeping Wall - you could have been tall 

a majestic source of Nature.

 

But for this Weeping Wall, it was their call

to build a malignant source of terror.

 

Weeping Wall - the tears of millions

sadly cascaded down your face.

Oh Weeping Wall - hundreds would fall

and die, martyred in that place.

In the winter they ran and tried not to slip 

racing towards your icy concrete face

but instead of climbing they lost their grip

and their bodies lay frozen in that “death Strip.”

 

Oh yes, visitors came and left words 

such as “Eich bin ein Berliner!”

or “Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!\"

 

But to no avail.

 

Yet every wall is born with two sins

to keep people out and to keep people in.

When a wall is used in the evil futility

of blocking another’s freedom or liberty 

it is destined to fail 

 

and the power of the human spirit did prevail.

 

Thus, that Weeping Wall did fall

to the hammer and the pick.