WALLS

Are walls for protecting
The people within, or
Rejecting the people without?
Are fences preventing
Escaping, invading?
What are those dividers about?

Are barriers barring
The enemy charge, or
A prison for princes and kings?
Should ramparts repel
Or defend and expel
Whatever those strangers might bring?

I wonder if walls
Are built on our fear
Our barriers form our defence?
But it isn't my call
To be sided at all, when I'm
Sitting right here on the fence