Walls Keep Them Out; Walls Keep Us In

The embankment is not solely

Prudently meant to be slowly

Holding back the flooding waters

Seasonally drowning our sons and daughters

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It is a rampart and a refuge

Of last resort 'gainst the deluge

Of juggernauts who precipitously

Attack opportunistically

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For those who, may, never see coming

Come what may, that renders succumbing

Any bulkhead 'twixt us and them

Only delays that, what may come, comes then

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Victory ne'er comes from bulwark alone

For nothing will warm the chill in our bones

From onslaught repeating perennially

'Less those in peril fight decisively