By Jeanne Sirotkin

 

Build a wall around the hatred in your heart

build a wall around the hatred in your heart

bury it deep

a gardener in black bends over the rose

he laces each thorn with poison

and turns your heart to stone

once we were strangers until

we were born and

the world flooded with light

and now our hearts beat

the rhythm of the drum

when did you stop to listen

and move your feet

as if you were one

with earth and the sky above

understand and build that wall

build that wall around hate.