Barriers

To build a wall
from the heart’s bricks,
is to paint with the graffiti
expressing those childhood balloons,
created when one glared at the sky
and still believed
there were enchanted winds
that could lift life
above the boundaries
so many voices claimed
were impossible to break.

A smile stains with memory’s brush
reliving the times in sweet joy
when nothing existed you felt was fake
and freedom was the beauty
of a seeing the world
not having any limitations
or fears to making one a prisoner.

Time brought those stones of facts
constructing the barriers over the mind,
those harden images you can’t tear down
shrinking your surroundings into a box.

Still reclaiming in the mind
those sketches of youth
preserved with imagination’s artistry,
allowing one to keep on dreaming
with the glow of hope
tomorrow can become
a land full of surprises and happiness.