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Fences

by hailfabio 

Posted: 12 December 2006
Word Count: 155
Summary: A little bit of everything in this.


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Is that all we are good for?
Fences,
all over the place
and written on everyone's face.

It's human nature
I guess,
build a fence to protect what you've got,
or just to show what is yours,
providing a barrier to the doors.

Along the countryside,
fences roam, wild and tame
wondering long and far
over dales and streams,
looking to exclude and working to
contain their stock.

High metal grates stand
so proud,
the city's Queen's guards,
only with glass or barbed wire
instead a silly black hat
for attire.

With fences
streaming everywhere we go,
it’s the fences you can’t see
that are the hardest to break through.
With shocks so electric
they scar forever,
and the closer you get
the more painful it is.

In a society that’s lost it’s senses,
there are too many fences
and fear runs loose through the gaps
as we withdraw into our shells,
descending into hell.






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Brian Aird at 12:56 on 12 December 2006  Report this post
Fences are a good subject; they define meaning in many areas of our lives. Some good lines, "written on everyone's face'.

The reference to the Queen's Guards and their silly hats seemed out of place as I came to the 'descent into hell' at the end.

But of course, clothes can be another form of fence or 'shell' into which we withdraw. Imagine if red nose day became a 'dress in a clowns suit' day; would we talk more on the underground? Imagine if a barbed wire fence were to be run all around the coastline, because the sea is dangerous? Clearly, like so many things, fences can be good and they can be bad.



hailfabio at 13:16 on 12 December 2006  Report this post
I guess the last line was just about the lack of trust and the amount of hate growing between different fractions these days, I can't see that improving in the near future. The Queen's guards was nothing to do with royalism, just an image/metaphor thing.

I fear that things like terrorism, racism, even disablism are being somewhat fuelled by the broadcasting they get, vicious circle I know but where does it start and end, what makes people react. Understanding and respect has a lot to do with it.

In my case it's the difference between the person who ignores me because they struggle to understand the way I speak and the person who takes the time to have a good conversation with me.

Fences indeed, interesting...

Thanks Stephen

joanie at 22:06 on 12 December 2006  Report this post
Hi Stephen. When I read this I immediately thought of the new expression "ring-fenced"! It took me a while to understand that one.

Fences are obsessive things, aren't they?

I enjoyed the read.

joanie


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