no man is an island 14/03/2016

No man is an island but maybe
Maybe the water’s rising
Maybe the lagoon is flooding
Maybe the reef is dying

Maybe its just the tide
fucking things up for a bit

Maybe some men are islands
Maybe chains of islands
Chained to islands
Men exiled or stranded or left to die

Ok, no man is an island but
the sandbanks that connect it to the mainland
have been washed away by storms and waves
The narrow channel now runs deep and dark

Shipwrecks and mermaids;
Doomed ships,
Siren songs,
And an island in the middle of nowhere
Water water everywhere
And not a drop to drink

No man is an island
But neither is Siberia
And it’s easier to float to Cuba on a raft
Than to hike the Urals

How many men have died
In mountain passes
In volcanoes
At the peak
All alone

No man is an island they say
But
I feel like an island
And
I think I am an island
So
I feel like building bridges
And
I think it might work