Su Ben Poet Free verse

Requiem I

There goes a shadow without substance,
the shadow never has been lived in anyone’s heat  
goes out to the boundless wilderness, and that’s why
the footmarks the shadow leaves behind in the wilderness are
filled full of loneliness.

When a drifting cloud whiles over the shadow,
the poor shadow dissolves into the empty air.
The footmarks the shadow left behind are
shivering with fear.

When such clouds come together and covers the sky
the clouds sprinkle rain, as time passes, the cloud becomes 
a downpour and hits the earth. The gathered rain water 
forms a torrent and dashes to the lowlands 
carrying everything on the earth,
the footmarks of the shadow also swept away by the water.

Although the rain stops, the clouds clear 
and the sun appears in the sky, there is no shadow 
or footmarks to be found in the wilderness any more.
Only those raindrops reflecting the sun rolling on the wilderness 
as if teardrops moaning.

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