Our Silent Tomorrow

Adrift

Small boat drifts
On warm Adriatic

Packed with hope and fear
Adrift from all humanity

adrift from the past
Forever
Sailing to the promised land

Skipping through tv channels
You may glimpse them
Making today's news
Full of faceless faces
Fleeing for a better life
Forgotten by tomorrow

Everyone has an opinion
Solutions fill the air waves
Leaders meet and promise
worn out resolutions
diluted

Meanwhile
Adrift from what they see
Too late to stem the tide

The young boy
Washed up on foreign sands

He didn't drift to sleep
He drowned