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The Shadow By Shana Armstrong

 

 

He dances and he flickers

He taunts me and he laughs

He disappears and shrinks and morphs

And I always by him, pass

 

He says that I'm the shadow

That I'm the one who follows him

I'm the one that shrinks and grows

And I away when it gets dim

 

I tell him that he's wrong

That I'm the one who's real and strong

And yet the whole day long

I listen to his tired song

 

And I begin to wonder

Why am I so real?

Is the only prerequisite of life

The ability to feel?

 

And so I begin to wonder

As the lantern light grows slim

Am I the owner of this life?

Or does that fall to him?

Done