my brother, my neighbor

[floydianslip6]

People gather
disconnected and independent.
A wave in an endless sea;
breaking only in my mind
I too, enter the fray.

Oh misfortune!
I am but a stranger amongst them.
My brother, my neighbor;
estranged to me
no closer than Prometheus.

Words tossed
like rocks, startle us from sleep
My brother, my neighbor;
they throw like a girl
yet we are together awake.

Curiously aware
what can I predefine
my brother, my neighbor;
climb into my chosen box
lest I am to remain at bay.

The box, my own
predispositions abandoned, we are one
My brother, my neighbor;
all our boxes from afar
but a single speck.

People gather
connected and ever multiplying
a wave in an endless sea.
We are all the water.

[skyfire]

People gather
disconnected and independent.
A wave in an endless sea;
breaking only in my mind
I too, enter the fray.

Words tossed
like rocks, startle us from sleep
My brother, my neighbor;
they throw like a girl
yet we are together awake.

a wave in an endless sea.
We are all the water.
these are the best parts of the poem! i liked the movement in these parts, the social conscience...