Transformation for new friend Darryl

narrative verse

 

Transformation 2009

 

Moonlight filtered through the trees.

Can cast strange shadows on the ground

which fill me with a vague unease

because they seem to move around.

 

Somehow independently

The minute that I look away.

As if they have been watching me

to try and lead my thoughts astray.

 

I know that in reality

 the shadows represent no threat

But fear erodes my certainty

and in my panic I forget.

 

I only know I have to run.

Just as the shadows knew I would

They coalesce, attack as one

Then finally I understood.

 

I should have run when I first saw

the shadows on the forest floor.

I know now what I did not know

before I became a shadow.

 

31/07/2009

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Reviews

[Rhine Wolf]

aww i love the last stanza! i will from now on look at a shadow in a new light!

Blessed be,
Fallon

[Samuel Dickens]

Interesting. I guess it's a fault of mine that I always want to make sense of things. If we aren't shadows, at least metaphorically, we make shadows. As always, very compitent work, Poeticpiers.