Island State of Mind — poem

By Anthony Shucraft

I’m sitting here inside my own world


In one where billions are floating by


So far apart, it ain’t tropical, it’s arctic


Waiting for a storm – drown us tonight



I don’t mind solitude but only in pieces


Because everybody needs to relax, unwind


But for all it helps, after awhile it ceases


When we get into an island state of mind



We need to get outside of ourselves


Crash together and form continents


Nothing much to being little puddles


When together we could become oceans



It is getting closer to us being flooded out


Of this existence that is short in time


Its time we get out of these whereabouts


See our way out of the island state of mind