We Drift Apart Without Even Noticing Just Like The Stars

by  shaun lawton 

 

 Because we assimilate too much data to really process

We drift apart without even noticing just like the stars 

In our younger days and earlier times we sailed abreast 

Caught up together on the same current, we hung on tight

Because our opinions didn't matter in that halcyon light

Now corporate controlled media outlets have corroded

The bonds that formerly kept us hitched across the rapids

No amount of white water turbulence could separate us then

Once upon a time we were free to match each other's energy

Nowadays its not so easy trapped in our isolated perches 

While our heads get respectively filled with senseless data

Strained through the digital filters of the world wide web 

Brothers will drift further apart while friendships fade 

Like old black and white photographs blurring over time

Please don't forget me and the way we used to be together 

When our individual knowledge was valued not denigrated

I beg of you don't let the senseless tide of online information

Allow our minds to drift further apart even if we're all fated 

To die in this realm separated and alone remember I am here

Just as you are present in this moment expanding across time

So let's not let ourselves fall prey to this illusion we're drifting apart

Without ever noticing we share this experience in the same boat

Just come to accept this vessel's not what we thought it was really

At the end of the day the metaphors drift away revealing we're here

Together like stranded starfish inches apart an eternity of distance

What continues to matter remains how we regard one another 

As fellow soulmates taunted by our separate prison cells adrift

On distinct courses whose brief intersections during our youth

First introduced us to one another and even if we understood 

Then that we'd never part you my brother will remain in my heart

Just as I know I'll be kept inside yours even after the cold distance

Between us becomes permanent and our corresponding signals lost

I will never forget the love we will always have for one another