Shadow To Shadow

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Shadow to shadow, shade to shade In youth the Eden where you played was left bereft, destroyed, decayed, by trusts malignant masquerade Shadow to shadow, shade to shade No grass survives your fallow glade, when opportunist needs invade and bleed the lives from every blade Shadow to shadow, shade to shade First, victims surging song is brayed but dirges of the wronged soon fade and urges pant their serenade Shadow to shadow, shade to shade Agendas you arrange cascade to keep your motives undisplayed and cover cracks in your charade Shadow to shadow, shade to shade You planted with your soiled spade these spoiled seeds in hopes that they'd advance the rancid plots you'd laid Shadow to shadow, shade to shade In kind, your ruined past replayed will find each bloom on whom you've preyed entombed in blighted beds you've made ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••