The Shadow Poem by Tony Adah

The Shadow



The sun rises from the east

My shadow leads its way

Long, short and long

Sometimes I am a dot

Another time a skeleton.


My shadow lengthens,

Fleshless like a skeleton

Hollows on my shoulders

Carry hunger and rim it with clavicles

On both sides of my shoulders

My ribs bulge like showing up

For a count.

I am hunger and hunger is me

I am my shadow and my shadow is me.

Friday, March 24, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: sad
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