Shadow dance

I kept searching but failed to find

I kept learning but failed to mind

that endless whirl of a shadow dance

While sitting under a rootless tree that grows from the lessons of life, trying to debate my shining shadow, that black nothingness that keeps stalking me in my bright and dark times.

That mobile portrait of me that tries to pretend to be my impossible rhyme.

"Oh my shadow don't you get tired of following me, I wonder how would you feel if we switch and I take

your oblivious role. But wait aren't we both the same? Or am I the one under control?

Are we separate entities? Or we both belong to the same soul?"

A moment of silence was left to be filled by the shadow talks..

"I am only the echo of your soul, if we were both the same you would also hear my voice roar.

I celebrate your victories, and make your guidance as my goal.

I am your secret majesty, your eternal black hole

I only shine when you are by myside, with the help of light spreading on the poles

In darkness my dimensions get absorbed into the realms of mystery

Where I meet with Amun, to learn from the ancient worlds of history

And when the wise ropes of Ra drop from the sky

I take your shape, a divine projection from the heavens up high

So place my spiritual hand with your soulful matter, and dance with me on the tunes of the unseen eternal symphony. Celebrate our victory under the the celestial light of heavens, conquering tyranny climbing the stairs of seven."

Everything stopped. The time, the space.. everything.

My shadow traveled back to the realms of mystery, and I was left alone getting preached by a moonless night. At that moment I realized that even my shadow leaves me when it gets so dark, it just flies away and disappears out of my sight.

I kept searching but failed to find

I kept learning but failed to mind

that endless whirl of a shadow dance

Written By Hassan Ismail

Author of the Riddle of Life