Stonewall ((-))

Brick by brick I've built this wall
ideas for mortar and action for stone,
but it isn't a wall for imprisoning.
It's a wall of structure, a rebuilt wall,
a stone monument to not merely survival
but -
but of growth, and development, and stability.
It's a superstructure that nothing will
tear down, a series of obelisks to point
to the sky, to accuse it for not falling,
not everything crashing down in a flaming
glory of catastrophe - because that never
happens, and will not happen, not to my
wall. I worry that the potential of the
permanent loss of you will tear down
this wall, but it will not. Although that
pink-hued brick was always my favorite,
this wall doesn't depend on it, it won't
fall without its support,
but -
There is something to be said for a
part of a wall that is beautiful, that
makes the entire structure better and
stronger than ever it was before, that
it glowed with the blazing light of Sol,
but -
That brick, for a time, was not
merely a brick, no, but a wall within,
atop and next to mine own, and although
the wall was better and stronger
and stood for more things than either
of us could have achieved on our own,
it nonetheless can still be rebuilt.

Though both collections of stone are
capable of standing solitary, and they both
are strong and beautiful in their own
right, they are not all they could be.

Together, we could build palaces and empires,
things far grander than the walls that we
on our own could make. We've built grand
structures and monuments in the past, testaments
to love and enlightenment, but words dissolved
the mortar, misunderstandings eroded the stone.

Now, however, with the ruins of our old works
both behind and in front of us, we know the
acidic effects that these misunderstandings
can have. We now face a decision.

A blueprint for a better tomorrow, a golden
dream of life, a stone and mortar cascade of all
that our second palace could be, if only we decide
that palaces and golden palisades and testaments
are a better choice for tomorrow -

instead of two lonely, but stable, walls.