A Haunting Shadow Poem by Barry Middleton

a shadow haunts me day and night
and I hear what it said
yet I will never understand
the whispers that I dread

although I beg some fatal cause
that might explain my fear
despair is all this ghost reveals
to make the misery clear

the greatest horror I was told
that I deserve this pain
is foolishness personified
whose dogma is inane

if there were justice in this world
then evil souls would burn
and good would gain a just reward
for all that it might earn

the innocent would never die
if kindness wore the crown
compassion then would reign supreme
as evil was brought down

that's not the way of universe
the shadow said to me
that's but a wish which humans share
for righteous destiny