The Wisdom of Shadows

Like shadows I shrink
when the earth tilts towards life
and struggles into long depressions 
when tilted into death.

Perhaps
I've listened too long
to the wisdom of gray sprites;
never going deeper
than the light

else

the darkness might steal 
my substance
and hoard it
in the lightless purse
of a moonless night.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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