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The Unshadowed


…And if shadows were colors, well just what would shadow me?
Distinguished from all others, and blended to misery.
Faces painted in anger paling as they pass me by,
I’ve never seen the danger, and I’ve never questioned why.

With life naught but a sentence that this soul has yet to serve.
No hope to find repentance, nor gain that which is deserved.
There’s no bouquet of flowers that could brighten up this day.
There’s naught but counting hours to the years given decay.

A tomb, so cold and graceless, the sun passes overhead.
But light, like me, stands faceless in the face of something dead.
The warmth cannot reach me here, nor would I desire it to.
There’ll be no silent tear nor déjà vu as I blow through.

The time-suck of emotion; Time, itself, will flee from me
With the purest of devotion, not an ounce of dignity.
No quarrel for the high heavens, nor grave-robbers song sung low.
Nor graced luck of triple sevens could save one the heedless blow.

As stars light up the night sky, but the darkness still remains,
As empty wisps slip on by on naught but their hunger pains.
Till with the sun’s last hope drawn, her shadows take final form.
Gift for tomorrow’s black dawn from the father of the storm.



Michael Anderson

03/23/2021

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1 posted 2021-03-23 01:38 PM


Michael...I wasn't sure where that phrase would take you, being you travel down many dark and lonely roads only to come to a clearing bathe in sunshine every now and then. I enjoyed where this took you. Thanks for sharing...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

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