Unfinished Business

Anthony Russell
Nov 8 · 1 min read

A wall taller than I can see

A call louder than anything else could be

It’s shattering glass, a scream on the wind

The power of nations on the head of a pin

This is all caustic, eroding, fleeting

Days of emptiness, never knowing, only briefly meeting

A battleground where the tide ebbs and flows

I’ll walk to forever with a bloody nose

I don’t profess proficiency in who I am or what I should be

I confess unpreparedness and inadequacy

But there’s a longing to act, to shift out of grey

I work at being free every day

Anthony Russell

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Normally the voice behind Banners On The Wall, I’m using Medium as a place for the other writing I want to do. Expect cricket, poetry and silly things.

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