Shades and Shadows

Shades and Shadows


Shades and shadows
Overcast the great green ground
Of Earth and sky and sea
And people and tree
Their tingling fingers touching
Hearts with coldness only
Human hearts can feel
And only human souls 
Can dismiss........

It spreads
This darkness too dark to see

Too dark to taste

Too dark to fight

Without a supernatural light

Shades and shadows

Looking down and 

Looking out and looking

Upon

Like overseers keeping watch

On underlings and landlords......

Lording greedily over property

We feel them but we do not know what

We touch them but we recoil unaware

We see them but we do not recognize

The shades and shadows standing beside us

Hovering in the corners, hiding behind the doors

Walking inside our minds and haunting us 

In our dreams

They have always been here

Long before us, long after us......

In ageless fields we cannot see

And do not want to visit

But there is something they do not know

And never will:

When this age is over

They will cease to exist 

And we will be reborn.

©by Voo 

August 13, 2005

3:30 p.m.