SHADOW ARE LONG

How would we manage without them?

The raw powers that uphold us, give us clout,

the effects of brightness

in our echoes and reflections,

untrammelled and (ignorantly)fearless.

Trekking through the morass of darkness,

stumbling in traps and holes,

Evolving by revolving,

experiencing our projections and fears

head-on: the demons we create,

their consequences, outcomes 

and the situations we allowed.

Our shadows give subtlety and depth!

Are made for and from Light itself,

in all its shades and permutations, delineating the 3D edges

 - of our excruciating and ecstatic

life-long travail.