BARRIERS

Great are the physical barriers of nature
mountain ranges, oceans, coral reefs,
deserts, volcanoes, climate and gravity among others
great too are our societal barriers
different lands, different peoples,
different cultures and traditions
then too, each society has its own behavioral barriers
the laws of the Land and its societal norms
barriers which if crossed will
in negative reaction result
thus giving us the feeling of
being hemmed in, constrained
somewhat restricted perhaps.

 

Yet these barriers are but trifles
when it comes to the
personal barriers in our hearts and minds
there the real quagmire starts
limiting our thoughts, our actions, our lives
playing havoc with our personal goals, our objectives
all due to the personal barriers
we ourselves erect through our
prejudices, our psychological blindness,
our emotional instabilities,
our defective characteristics
thereby making our own lives miserable
then wanting to know what went wrong
trying in vain to analyze the fix we are in
mostly all due to our very own making
the self erected barriers of our hearts and minds.

Herbert Holzbauer
© November 2001

Midi: "Bang A Gong"

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