Wall

I created you to punish me
A labour of love
My self-imposed purgatory
My little masterpiece

I invited you in
(yes I admit it I admit it)
Let you wax stronger
And while my back was turned
You burnt all the books
and declared yourself
The First
Sentenced me to spend my years
building that impossible wall
so you might live forever.
And I complied
(I did I did I confess)
closed my eyes,
and lost myself in blissful toil.

Better to be haunted than
lonely, I say
Though you don't hear
Mon papillon des r?ves,
Tochter aus Elysium,
tu as les yeux trop, trop beaux.
Hao jiu bu jian.
Your faded image like the remnants
of a dream
that once seemed real
or a reality
that now seems dreamlike.

My plaintive love songs
drowned out by post-Babel babble,
The rabble, yammering, clamouring,
jabbering like chimps.
Words feel foreign on my tongue,
Like coins or stones.
I spit them out one by one.

You made me love you
I didn't want to do it
I didn't want to do it
I lie
Adding another brick.