There Are No Walls

by Mike Turner / March 30th, 2025

There are no walls
Where soft winds blow
Where pewter stars
Dust vaulting skies

There are no walls
In hearth-warmed homes
Where mothers tend
To babies’ cries

If walls must stand
Let them contain
The hate and evil
Which some men hold
Enabling we
Who stand without
To vouchsafe freedom
Within our souls

There are no walls
Where Truth and Beauty
Their Peace and Comfort
To us impart

Thus be our call
Our self-sworn duty
That ‘tween our hearts
There are no walls

Mike Turner, a poet/songwriter living on the U.S. Gulf Coast, was named 2025 Poet of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Dissident Voice; his lyric, “Sense of Peace,” was awarded the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative’s 2023 Roger Williams Peace Award for Writing. He can be contacted at www.MikeTurnerSongwriter.com. Read other articles by Mike.

This article was posted on Sunday, March 30th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.