The Great Wall

The Great Wall

When you stand on the Great Wall

of China it seems to go forever.

They say you can see it from the moon,

but the last moon I was on

was my honeymoon.  I didn’t look

for any walls.  There were so many

surprises I couldn’t take it all in.

It went on and on.  It still goes on.

When we went to China, we climbed

the Great Wall.  We could see the moon. 

I don’t know if anyone up there

was looking down, but we didn’t care.

We were together.  In China,

a place we never dreamed we’d be

that first morning of our honeymoon.

And they were right, it never ends.

                              —Donnell Hunter

                                        17 February 2012