Steph Shuff
Walls Up
Walls up!
I hear the mortar
and trowel
slide on red brick
Scraping
Walls up
Tears us down
Walls up!
A man must learn
to help himself
Feelings are for faggots
and femmes
Walls up
We bow down
Walls up!
Those aren't people
out there
they say
just ghosts haunting
abandoned shells
Walls up
Shoot them down
Walls up!
Eyes down!
Fight to the death
for the American dream.
Freedom
to be alone
behind walls
we build
safe
but suffocating.