SHADOWS (2020)
Shadow, bring me home
Shadow, show me I’m not alone
Shadow, bring me home
And we’ll never be alone
Hello darling, said the shadow
Who said that? She asked in moonlight
It is I, the shadow of the one you love
He sleeps far from you now
But I, being a shadow at night
Am free to roam
She lay amazed and began
To feel her own shadow
It grew full of warmth,
Filled with an essence like herbs
Brewing in a pot on top of
Some ancestor’s oven
You see, said the shadow,
There are many worlds
Happening at once
And you are here for but a moment
Whereas I am constant,
For I am absence
I have known your shadow
Since the very first moon
Whispered to the very first
Mushroom
She smiled, and they all
Bloomed in the moonlight
//
The wrecked ship, the long trek
The plans abandoned, the polished deck
The train derailed, the last ship sailed
Casey Jones in the belly of the whale
//
I am always standing between
My shadow and the sun
Such sweet communion
When the day is done
The kin of my light
The shadows that surround me
The forms beyond us
Constantly resounding
The shadow of mortality
One day seen by the child
With the bleeding knee
The shadow of fear
Hidden in the palm
Of the swinging fist
The shadow of love
In the form of a dove
Mourning, ever mourning
Until it fades in flight
Back into the sun
//
Now I know that she’s here
I’m bound to listen real,
Glisten darling
My sisters tell me so
I’m bound to grow with you
And I’m bound to love you
You are the part of me
I see shining through
Now she is in my world
I’m gonna show such
Love to the girl
My sisters understand
I’m bound to hold your hand
There’s such truth within you
You are the part of me
I see shining through
Shadow, bring me home
Shadow, show me I’m not alone
Shadow, bring me home
And we’ll never be alone