Shadows Are Frightening

Shadows are frightening for

Darkness shrouds them.

The eye cannot discern them nor

The soul feel them.

But their darknesses are so trivial

When looking from where they stem:

The sun, and from that nice reminder

Is a most relieving revelation:

'I know they walk the same path as I

And are as I, alone,

And I know that their darknesses inside

Are just as dark as my own.'