Walls

(inspired by Stowey Castle) 

Walk up and over my grazed ruins;
Observe my long-breached defences
Toppled by time.

Ask yourself why humanity
Continues to scar the Earth's surface 
With the spoil-heaps of war. 

How many more walls must fall
And like casualties, lie mounded, like graves;
Buried by insecurity.

Now imagine a world without walls.
Of all embracing 360 degree views. 
Is that not the freedom you're fighting for? 

Look, from me, onto a sea of change, 
Collaborative cranes hoist Hinkley aloft;
French, Chinese, English, building the future, as one. 

Or, just another wall? 
Future mushroom-cloud, 
Rubble?



A Wensley
26.02.2023