by Arianne Tong

Created on: September 08, 2010

Dodging Shadows

The blackness; the dark
one dimensional outline of
me and you -
the Shadow.

It never looks like us:
dismiss it;
it's not real
it can't feel or touch or breathe.
It only follows, and seethes
out and grows from the feet, and breeds
an uncertainty...
a certain uncertainty...

Oh, we can see it in the sun,
but in the dark - where there is no sun
or light
so bright -
then where does the shadow run?

No where.
I am the shadow; you are the shadow;
There's no shadow we can dodge,
no shadow that can run.

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