Poem: (Our) World's Apart Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

(Our) World's Apart

Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

Website:  Misanthropic Poetry

What about you

You've ceased to exist

Captive castaway

Communications not severed

From your island

I have seen and heard

Signs of life

Modern day

Digital smoke signals

Emanate from the mouths

On their fingertips

And I feel like an intrusive frequency

Eavesdropping on their channel

Observing the conversation

Of strangers that used to be

Familiar faces

I have seen and heard

The words

Pour out of the smoke stack

Like a lone abandoned factory

On the side of a desolate mountain

Over looking the water

Trapped in the atmosphere

Engulfed in the scenery

A part of the mechanical world

Swallowed up by nature

And transformed into relics

And ancient, misplaced mythologies

Absorbed into the vacuum

And trapped between eternity

And the present

These words float like

Space garbage in this

State of the art oblivion

I can see and hear

The words reaffirm

A dulled out pulse

All around us

Falls in reverse

But they're still breathing

We've omitted mutual space

For faceless transmissions

And cast into it's exile

With shorelines lined

With electric fences

There is a distant light

A shred of hope

Shrouded in darkness

But the thickened fog

Has taken all my friends

And transformed us into

Perfect strangers

And the truth

Still shines through

Where the flood used

To hide them

All people in close proximity

But none of us

Can find them