found poem

I refuse to let their medication shave my eyes of you
Your illusion will be on the back of my eyelids
So I’ll enjoy sleep more than wake, especially when you’re away from me
When you discover me behind this iron curtain
I’ll sweep aside the great veil with my careless hand
They tugged on my lady liberty but she refused to fall
The red scare won’t keep us apart
All their criticism won’t seep into my veins and foul my taste for you
I’ll try not to think about your name carved in the Berlin wall
If we put our time lost in dollar signs
The toll man says it’d be in the hundreds
I’ll often embrace that wall
And see if I can hear your heartbeat in between the cracks
All of us on the western front scrambled before the airlift
We waited for candy bombs and white parachutes
Killing all thoughts of any foreign threat
The time it takes for the packages to touch ground is a century to me
Not quite as long as the love between you and me          
Not quite as long as the stone wall between you and me

Cameron Tennant