The barriers of the world are plenty,
Fences round each heart is built;
Brick by brick we raise our walls
Walls of anger, pain and guilt.
When hurt, retreat, return to base,
Defense we raise up to the sky;
If walls will block impartial gaze,
How can we then see eye to eye?
Stone by stone, we shut them out,
Keeping safe in our own arms;
Building borders in our world,
Just to keep ourselves from harm.
Oh World, the walls that block the joy,
That should have filled your lovely halls;
If only we could break these down,
And let us mingle, one and all.
So brick by brick and stone by stone,
I demolish my own wall;
And use the bricks I pulled apart,
For bridges to unite us all.
