Light - show us what is and will always stay

Shadow - illuminate what isn’t and might be

Everything is the same, every day

We are bound by rules, never free

But shadow and light keep us sane

In their glorious defiance of all

We think is true, try to maintain

Expand our minds, no longer small

Shadow and light - a balancing act

If they are too similar, then they

Are too mundane, not abstract

Defeats their purpose, in a way

Think about this -

Maybe the real alarm

Lurks not in bliss

Sadness, anger, or charm

But in between the two

Between shadow and sunlight

A place that’s ignored, not new

An undiscovered plight