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Melting Shadows

MELTING SHADOWS See their shadows melt away See their shadows melt away All these wooden figures How do they turn shadows? All these wooden figures Why are they all hollow? She walks in the maddening crowd alone searching the way she has lost forlorn to the sunshine meadow nobody holds her hands now She stands like a wayside tree hollow slim shadow lengthens in sunset glow doesn’t reach where the home stood Why has she turned into a wood ? All these wooden figures How do they turn shadows? All these wooden figures Why are they all hollow? The gleam of twilight hours fading away she finds her home for the old she turns into a faceless figure grey Why does a shadow have a number rolled? In the shade of leaves she built her nest dainty in the shadow of broken wings frayed she finds the nest empty chicks have all flown away All these wooden figures How do they turn shadows? All these wooden figures Why are they all hollow? She soared high like cloud in the blue sky until the rainstorm surged on the lone shadow started to melt by and by Where have all the dreams gone? She made footprints on time's shifting shore found many people following her she traces now the lone trail to graveyard takes her shadow for ultimate rest homeward All these wooden figures see their shadows melt away How do they turn shadows? All these wooden figures see their shadows melt away Why are they all hollow? September 2, 2019

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