Midas And The Golden Wall:

It has taken me some time

to understand that the gold

Midas saw had nothing to do

with greed, rather he saw

what he fully expected

and so it has come to this

we bar the refugee

from our borders seeing

what we most dread

and in the construction freeze

ourselves into that image of Midas – hand

outstretched, the apple uneatable, golden;

water, air and food ruined

in the face of our unfounded fear

and no matter how high we build

the wall and whom we demand

pays us for it, the fear will always
enter into us free of charge.