November PAD Chapbook Challenge Day 2 – Life vs lego

 
Day 2: write a ‘(blank) more (blank)’ poem (see link)
 
 
Life vs lego
 
“Build more bricks”,
an invisible divide,
a curtain, a separation,
something to divide a nation.
 
An entire people,
families, friends and pets,
languages and religions,
phrases, thoughts, echoes
of memories and stuffed albums.
 
But it isn’t Lego.
 
You can’t just build,
demolish, build again.
You’re left with the grit,
the weight, the dearth of
belonging, of knowing.
 
Instead, there is yearning,
a hunger for how things were,
those rose-tinted yesterdays
before the rise of a great wall.
 
Tearing it down
left a shadow, a scar,
a thing unerasable,
a bleed in the sky.
 
We left it to history to devour.
A waking of the hour.
A call to act,
not look away again.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, November 8, 2026