10:42pm October 14, 2014

Dancing with Shadows

Do you know that I don’t know
Anything beyond light and shadow
No ideas, no thoughts
Just reactions

I chase my shadow
I run from my shadow
I touch my shadow
I lean on my shadow
I tap on its fingers
I step on its feet

And we dance
And we prance
And we dance

I can’t see you watching
If I did, I couldn’t care
Light and dark are now
All that I perceive
Not just the colors
But the things we believe
Ideas don’t exist
And neither do you
Unless you bring it
Bring your shadow into view
Then I can dance —
With your shadow, not with you

Black and white
Dark and light
Are all I comprehend
But it’s not so bad
To dance with shadows
Round the bend

[Also at my main poetry blog, which has a comments section.]