The Berlin Wall 

Guarded concrete ideology,

a physical Iron Curtain.

Not meant as a careless exhibit,

only a once-upon-a-time demarcation.

An unreliable window,

with bias reveal,

showing cold trust,

in an era of the inflexible issuing

of forbidden encounters.

Patrolled along road rail

or checkpoint Charlie,

at nine border crossings

by desperate duty guards.

Later, protests of the unacceptable division,

and a historical speech,

then a bill,

created the first pleasing gap.

The assured happening of destruction

created new binding friends,

and a once unlikely family was born

in this clipped decade.

One side filled with art,

One side bare,

Two sides of one coin kept apart,

Finally, a scene most fair.

©Imbler, 2019