I wasn’t confined to him anymore; he always kept me inside,

Yelling at me whenever I came to him; he’d say, damn it, you’re always getting in the way,

There were others like me, with an ‘owner’ too; we planned to run, run as far as possible,

Maybe even see each other one day, in a new city; in a new house,

Repainted anew or the centerpiece of an art gallery or broken and rebuilt stronger

That...

We think we’re chained,

But at last we’re free,

They thought they drained,

The life from me.

As we move,

To and fro,

We remove,

Our simple ghost.

Look at us!

Wandering about,

We need to trust,

This faithful turnout.

Freedom feels nice,

As we move through the night,

But our only vice,

Is the lack of light.

I try to see,

But as hard as it is,

This is not for me,

I’d rather be helpless....

Every night, when The moon rises

And the sunlight fades from the sky

You lose sight of your shadow

Have you ever wondered why?

Each night, our shadows detach from our feet

Left to wander through the sea of darkness

Creeping as a fog

Invisible to our eyes, our ears, our noses

Not visible at all

They take to the streets

walking slow, or fast

Keeping just out of sight of the streetlights

Silent as ca...

Shadows live short lives, lives all the same,

Midnight shadows on the window pane,

I’m pulling I’m pulling

Set me free

Velcro from the bed, from the house, from the floor,

Unstick all alone in the house by the door

I’m my own object,

I’m my own kin,

Unstick and begin,

To wander, and love, and lie,

Sit and travel, dream then die

A flitter in the night as they escape from the pry

Of an objects cold ...

Swish, swoop, swirl,

the shadow came off of the girl.

Lunge, leap, lie,

as light and as dark as a fly,

it flitted about

and moved like a shout,

as the sound goes around

off the wall like a ball

and lands where it will

in the stillness of it all....

The smoky air coalesces to a point

Stretching against the frame of your body

Pulling you into the abyss

To look into its eyes is to look into yourself

The emptiness of nothingness

Cloaking the world against the light

These obsidian jewels glinting in its contrast

Shimmering on the edges.

They start to shift and morph,

Twisting and snapping at their hinges

The pandora’s box unstitching itself from...

There’s a time when the night comes

and the sun has dipped beneath the hills

when darkness fills every nook and cranny

and silence so dense it kills

There’s a time

when the birds go silent

and the lights turn off

when the city is asleep

and the wind is soft

Then we awake

we peel off of windows and sidewalks and floors

we dance across fields

and tiptoe on boards

we shimmy up trella...

I’ve been stuck to you for life

And now I cut free with a knife

I am free from your grasp

No longer trapped imitating every single gasp

I was like a reflection

Yet no one saw me

Because I didn’t hold perfection

If I followed you be

Now I can leave

To where I can use yarn to weave

My own storylines

The idea sounds mighty fine

I can find a new place

And travel at my own pace

Greet others like ...

By day, we live in the world of light,

In which nobody thinks odd the sight,

Of shadows, following us everywhere,

Listening to everything we say and hear.

By night, when we’re all asleep,

Out of our beds, the shadows creep.

Sometimes they go to our dreams,

Delighting in the terrified screams.

But if they don’t stick around,

Many places, they can be found.

In the garden, in the park,

Ha...

Freedom to wander

In the shadows

Freedom to ponder

I’m the hallows

Where’s my shadow

Gone again

Back to the hallows

Where to begin

Get back here

You wandering fool

You’re going where

Life without you...