The Other Side of the Wall

Are there trees beyond this wall? Brighter suns?

Sweltering through shade, I am left alone

Tall grass sees past bleak stone bricks, but I don’t

Keeping my soul apart from my true thought

The wall evolves into buildings, cities

I stay old and decrepit like a tomb

It watches my grave to keep me under

Smiles and points through its hideous wealth

I started building a door to get through

But the wall had friends, they teamed up on me

One wall after another, I was blocked

Locked in a cage I built, that I can’t leave

I make peace with my walls, found my new home

Where I imagine the sun oozing light