Shadow figure undefined

Below the branches of my mind

Shaded cool without a form

Hidden shape outside the norm

I've become that darkened phantom

I'm the one I should have fathomed

Rooted here yet pulled apart

By something not within my heart

Deeply part of soil and trees

One with hills and cooling breeze

But I must leave here one dark day

When I leave my shadow stays

© Paul Viel 2002