Strangers

STRANGERS I often watch as you walk by, You and many others Lost within your thoughts and plans Within a sea of brothers We are strangers you and I We have never spoken We stay locked within ourselves Our privacy unbroken Time has become our enemy We never stop to see We are surrounded by ourselves My world is more then me What if just once we were to stop And watch for just a while Those that pass us every day And risk a simple smile What if we were to say hello And if our eyes should meet Might we find that they respond And the gesture they repeat What if we risked a word or two Or a casual remark To find they are receptive In conversation we embark Might we find that our one smile And those few words would tend To cut across the silent void And the strangers now a friend