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 not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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