n. something that indicates or fixes a limit or extent –
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, true, but sometimes one has to erect one and defend it anyway. Sometimes, the words, “thus far, no further,” are a thing you have to take seriously enough to set into words firmly – whether it’s your weight creeping up and you declare a moratorium on snackage, or it’s your siblings encroaching, and you have to smack down a line of masking tape down the center of your room. Sometimes, we need longer, stronger words for STOP. Boundaries, people. Use them. Respect them.
“…Before I built a wall I’d ask to know…”
Mr. Frost, your walls
which you question, do but serve
the cause, “Sanity.”
Applying Brakes
“I hear what you’ve said,
but, listen; if you would just –”
We circle again.
in the end, I still win
given time, water
works its will. All wear down,
save the broken sands.