THE BERLIN WALL - REMEMBERED
It was an obscene reminder that Mankind could divide its very soul
A terrible thing - yet kinder in its parts than the reasons for its whole
A fortress wall of fear - across the furrowed brow of its creators it lay
So that if they dared lift their eyes to heaven it stood there in the way
No Jericho trumpets to bring it crashing down in its blood-soaked shame
Instead, freedom's call to return it to the dust from which it came.
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John Coopey
Tue 11th Nov 2014 21:50
To those of us of our era, MC, it was an immutable truth that the world was divided into capitalist and communist blocs. It was inconceivable that the divide should come down.
Now it must be inconceivable to those younger that the world could have been divided in this way.