It’s four in the morning, the party is done, <br />Friends sharing memories, closeness and fun. <br />It’s so quiet as I clear the debris away <br />Like the new world we live in on this new year’s day. <br />Yes, a time to reflect on the year just gone by, <br />A year like no other, it’s special, and why? <br /> <br />Because the walls came down in ’89 <br /> <br />A year of anguish for people that cried <br />And, as is our way, far too many died <br />But far fewer than one might have guessed <br />As the nuclear cataclysm we feared regressed. <br />'We the people' have spoken, and what a release <br />We earned a new chance to move forward in peace. <br /> <br />When the walls came down in ’89 <br /> <br />Walls can be barriers, like that one in Berlin, <br />Keeping out freedom while keeping people in, <br />But walls can also exist in the mind <br />Walls that use thoughts, not mortar, to bind <br />People, not bricks, into some common goal <br />One with a purpose but without a soul <br /> <br />Those walls came down in ’89 <br /> <br />An old decade is closing and we all start anew <br />In a world with so, so much to do <br />New friends and old enemies now seem as one, <br />A cold war has gone, a new process begun <br />One we can’t yet foresee, we don’t know the solution. <br />'We the people' say make Peace our New Year’s resolution <br /> <br />Because the walls came down in ‘89<br /><br />Terry Brewer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wallls-came-down-in-89-reflections-from-the-sink/
