We're just branches on a tree

A couple of weeks ago I took a late night walk with a friend down the lower part of Manhattan (in the wrong direction, of course). We ended up talking about people and how we all affect each other. Most of the time without even knowing it. I must have seen a tree during the walk because I ended up making a tree analogy. I believe the actual quote was: We're just branches on a tree that keep running into each other. We're constantly just fucking each other (this was said while I repeatedly crashed my hands into one another).
We don't realize how much our actions and words affect others. We don't realize how affected we are by other people. We also don't see how similar we are to each other. The problem you have now, is probably the same one I just had or am having at the exact same moment. If only we talked to each other more then maybe we could help each other. Maybe we could understand each other.

When I finally got on the train (in the right direction), I began writing. And this is what I got....


We are branches on a single tree
Sometimes we meet,
Sometimes we barely touch.
We intertwine with some
And bypass others.
Sometimes we're broken,
Sometimes we're strong.
Some reach far up
And some hardly leave ground.
You bloom
While I die
But we belong to the same stem
Our lives rooted together.
Underneath the rubble
Of broken dreams.