meine land abandon - part 1

earthquakes sounding.. as lands were tore..
haunting cries and bloody skies.. did implore..
crows.. forever scratching.. keeping score..
counting the fallen.. stung about the floor..

a thirst yet quenched.. the echoes of war..
forever heard.. there lingering.. now lore..
as i stood watch.. yet long before..
a child.. that.. that i was.. no more..

the world blinked but once.. as it knows..
for in that moment.. the dark wall arose..
eleven by eleven.. each block did pose..
side by side.. and top on top.. its rows..
there to impose.. perpetually enclose..

it was built by man.. the iron hand..
meant to stand.. divide meine land..
forever manned.. it did command..
broke the band.. let loose the sand..

and sands stand sifting.. the truest of erosion..
my family.. my freedom..  a twisting delusion..
a boy on the other side of the wall.. an illusion..
the curtain drawn ever tight.. not a conclusion..

as i stood watch.. yet long before..
a child.. that.. that i was.. no more..