Stephen’s Statements A little bit of everything from Stephen Duncan Jr, a Software Developer in Portland, Oregon

Masonry

brick on brick on brick
The Wall is built higher and higher
there can be no outward expansion
The Wall encloses the Builder

The Wall is built to keep out danger
nothing can get him here
but malediction and benediction are kept out equally
The Wall blocks all

for fear of the danger, The Wall remains
no courage exists inside to tear it down
so it continues to be built
brick on brick on brick

nothing escapes, nothing penetrates: The Wall
the Builder dreams of what is beyond The Wall
but it's too much, to tear down his life's work
the inside must suffice

the Builder cannot escape The Wall
he is forever stuck, he has but one hope:
that his soul and sanity leave before
The Wall grows too high, brick on brick on brick