Let's build bridges here and there Or sometimes, just a spiral stair That we may come somewhat abreast And sense what cannot be exprest, And by these measures can be found A meeting place -- a common ground Nearer the reaches of the heart Where truth revealed stands clear, apart; With understanding come to know What laughing lips will never show: How tears and torturing distress May masquerade as happiness: Then you will know when my heart's aching And I when yours is slowly breaking. Commune -- The altars will reveal. . . We then shall be impulsed to kneel And send a prayer upon its way For those who wear the thorns today. Oh, let's build bridges everywhere And span the gulf of challenge there. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAMBER MUSIC: 11 by JAMES JOYCE THE JOY OF THE HILLS by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: JOHN SCOFIELD by EDGAR LEE MASTERS DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 6. GRUACH by GORDON BOTTOMLEY METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 8. BAUCIS AND PHILEMON by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO MINIVER CHEEVY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON SONNET: 55 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE IDLE SINGER: REACTION by QUINTIN BONE INSCRIPTION IN NETHER STOREY CHURCH IN MEMORY OF RICHARD CAMPLIN by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES |