My Wall

My Wall

This is my wall
I'm at its center
I built it high
Wanting no one to enter

Daily I toil
To shore up my wall
It is precarious
So easy to fall

The chinks they are many
That I try to fill
That is enough
The wall it holds still

Just when I think
Everything is stable
Along comes another
To test if I'm able

This is too much
I scream and I rant
This is my wall
Breach it, you can't

Suddenly weary
An emotional wreck
My wall it falls inward
The end of my trek

As it collapses
I am not freed
The rubble it crushes
No way to impede

Now I lay buried
By that which I built
Never allowing anyone in
This fortress of guilt

Of what am I guilty ?
Always afraid of the dance
I walled out love
Never gave it a chance