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[aid] => mick
[title] => Shadow of my former self
[time] => 2005-08-17 22:54:14
[hometext] => I didn't mean to bury it alive
[bodytext] => I saw a falling shadow It clung to walls It was bone black; stoned soul like martyrs Colored the wall but left no markers It was startled Shapeshifting It tried to hide it's own aura I saw through it; playing puppets and charades It threw it's true nature when it juggled It wasn't my shadow; but no other object fit It danced against my senses in a composed waltz of water Loosing it's composure I wasn't trying to make it nervous; but it seemed offended With clear glass stare it colored me intimidated I stared back like sky It understood how i stood in my rainy day parade I extended my shape We played patty cake to invisble beats We weren't kin or cut from the same cloth No, I was woven wool, straight from black sheep sheered It was rayon and wore itself with comfort It's demensions were opaque I knew my translucent signal would soothe; but I hid it for fear of overexposure We conversed solemn; dancing around the clock ticks Nonverbal Shadows only speak body language But then, the inevitible rose to paint zebras on my wall The shadow shrunk Throwing itself in a corner where the sun can't breathe I saw it's crawling panic Like a spider spinning a web to hang itself from It was ripped from the wall It couldn't breathe floor I still remember it's outstretched sleeve of sabbath As if I could rival a star Not that I could do nothing But there was nothing to do And it gasped it's last ember I buried it under the creeks of the floor boards and door swings Built it a headstone of pillow cases and cereal boxes I thought it dead But when I dead those thoughts It writes me notes on my mirror It tells me I buried it alive I hear it's screams at night Muffled by nightbirds and new moons It haunts me like ghost or memory Luckily, I have the memory of ghosts So I sleep surprised [comments] => 5 [counter] => 252 [topic] => 73 [informant] => Shade [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 20 [ratings] => 4 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => abstract )
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