Look out! They're building a wall.

 

Walls suggest the idea of structure and safety.

Before accepting them, should we not ask first, "whose structure, whose safety"?

What if the architects and the builders only want a structure that suits them, that is safe for them? 

How are their walls then different to those of a cage or a prison?

And if we try to roam freely, and they build thicker, higher, stronger walls, then is that not oppression?

And how can free people be anything then but trapped in spaces they thought were their own?

These manufactured and concrete walls, in headlines, in policy, in law,

That try to hold and separate and contain us,

That stop us from coming together and being one.

In silence they become supported and allowed to stand without objection.

Apathy becomes the foundation on which yet more walls can be built, more control reinforced.

Whilst power, greed and corruption covers up and clears difference from view.

There is too often near uniform acceptance of such walls,

Borders taken for granted, ignored, standing in plain sight, yet unseen.

Structure is familiar territory, disrupting and dismantling the fabric of authority is not.

Resistance nevertheless exists in speaking up and shouting out:

"Protect relationships, connection and humanity! Love is a stronger than walls.

Wellbeing is unique, co-created and embodied, not built around, for or upon us".