My Shadow

A constant reminder of what’s surrounding me The vacuum of evil that seeks to suck me in That the light will fade and I too will cease to be Along with my warped blank paperweight twin I walk in the omnipresence of his gnomon stair The onrushing day’s crowd evades our inert figure But an oncoming stranger’s sneer smears my stare I shrink as he augments in a meagre shudder At the end of day's rush to everywhere he’s nowhere But everywhere in the sea of the projected black of night And in the artificial light he’ll again reappear everywhere Only to disappear into the dark alleys in a slight His carbon sheet envelopes my retired lumber mind As we're posted expressionless into a new realm Still as the dead of night as we shadow dance blind Folded through nightmares with my shadow at the helm