Shadows


The shadow is made by you and light.

Where the light can't go, what's left to sight

Is the darkened shadow that we all hide.

It can't live in the light.  It cannot abide,

So it waits for the moment that it consumes

The light that surrounds like unwelcome tombs.


So where is the life,

In the dark or the light?

If the shadow will swallow

The light that surrounds

It's not the hollow 

That makes us sound.


The matter we are that blocks out the light

The very thing we hide from sight,

Is who we must be 

To set our souls free.


9/98

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