The Berlin Wall came crashing down The Iron Curtain too has been melted down For a while unified brotherhood stood proud and tall While hatred and rancor seemed doomed for a fall. But impenetrable, impregnable, offensive partitions Continue to split mankind into distinct sections. Fanatical bigotry forges the bricks and stones Concretizes humanity even as it squirms and groans.
Imbecile pride, cultural divides, distinctions of caste and creed, Religious barriers, regional factions, differences of race and breed Ethnic cleansing, apartheid, mass genocides all combine To hold the world to ransom; to rupture man's kinship divine We must walk the bridge of friendship with footfalls of understanding Scale the ladder of acceptance and reach out in mutual bonding We may yet build a peaceful world without recourse to arms If we let our conflicts mellow in love's appeasing charms.
