Dance

I'm fascinated by shadows.

I look down
I look all around
I press my ear to the shaking ground
But shadows can dance without a sound.

 

Black leaves upon the earth
Green ones in the sky
The black ones flutter
Like birds in the air-
But the green ones are still.

 

I look down
I look all around
I press my ear to the shaking ground
But shadows can dance without a sound.

 

The solid blackness of buildings
The fluttering darkness of birds
Unaffected
And unadorned
And solidly intangible.

 

I look down
I look all around
I press my ear to the shaking ground
But shadows can dance without a sound.

 

Still as silence
Chaotic as life
But pure, pure-
In a way we
Could never be.

 

I look down
I look all around
I press my ear to the shaking ground
But shadows can dance without a sound.

 

The dancers and lights
Molding together on the floor
To create a mass of stillness.
Life isn't shadow-
It's color
And wonder
And noise.

 

So stop looking down
Don't look all around
There's so much to see beyond the ground
Because life can arrive without a sound.

Author's Note

I know the chorus rhymes and the rest doesn't. If that bothers you, sorry.

Reviews

[RedInk524]

Quite interesting, shadows are indeed overlooked and largely underestimated. I too love shadows, there are so many things they can represent and yet it is so simple as to what creates them. People often speak of reflections, but unlike reflections, shadows are always with you.