Stranger

Stranger         4/17/2015

We are accidental strangers

Sharing an impossible chance

A rendezvous against the odds

At just this one moment in time.

Exchanging ideas and emotions

Across invisible threads

Crawling like a spider

Spinning in their web.

We make the connections

And summon the memories

As the spirit shines through

Each and every synapse.

We are all waking up

Form a long slumber

To find strangers in the living room

Eating our food

And drinking our beer.

Shocked, disgusted, and angry

That we could be so betrayed

We stand in the doorway

Frozen in horror.

This castle took time to build

The stones mortared with blood

And endless sacrifice

One block on top of another

Day after day.

Compassion is not suicide

And children cannot defend themselves

Looking to us for a future

Dissolving in front of our eyes.

It’s time to decide

What it is

That we must do

Better now than then

Outnumbered and alone. 

It’s not about me

And what it is I do

But rather about those

Asleep in the womb.