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...SORROWING LOVE by KATHERINE MANSFIELD WOMEN AND ROSES by ROBERT BROWNING IN DISPRAISE OF THE MOON by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE LESSER EPISTLES: TO BERNARD LINTOTT by JOHN GAY FIRST SIGHT by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH |