Shadow Teacher

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this is on of My earlier poems...written in the 1977-78 time frame under Personal Growth a secton of My 1st booklet Titled "Living, Breathing & Surviving".

Shadow Teacher

With uncertainty as an asset,
I plan for a future - unsure of shadows;
I look into shadows
                        for reflection!

Though dark and sometimes disguised, they;
Shadows offer refuge, from the world of light.
Though not there - still in existence,
as if waiting to step up and speak.

I wonder if shadows die
      or if even they can talk.
They know our darkest side and
play it before us, when alone;

a configuration of me,
the me I need to question, see
my shadow floats behind no more.

Instead he be-front's me,
as if I need protection.
Being witness to heartache, no one else has seen!

He cries when I cry
and follows each laugh ...in smile.
He seeks out other shadows
before I can greet their maker.

I know you are my Guide, Shadow teacher, teach me shadows.
Soon I will pass a stranger...who's shadow is long, behind.

If I can't - speak for me!
Touch his with a finger of your own
and pass the good company
                    you've played to me...

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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