My Shadow
My Shadow
By: Tom Wright
9-11-2006
Only my shadow at noontide
Replicates the man I am.
It makes no allowances
For the man of morning that I was,
Or for the man I had hoped to be.
As day wanes
My shadow grows ever longer,
Until the time that sunset
Eats its lunch and pops the sack.
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