I saw Your shadow ,
Following Your feet.
As if afraid to leave,
The Master its been following
I felt the sadness it felt
When about leaving, it heard You say,
Crushing all hopes,
All faith,
All happiness...
I watched them DRIFT away...
I stood facing Your back
Some Distance away.
Tears streaked across
Your shadow's helpless face...
You left,
A heartless, hurtful Departure,
Designed to torment,
To inflict much Pain.
I walked over to the sobbing Shadow
Caressed Its wounded soul,
Singing for it,
Melancholic, mournful tunes.
Nursing a broken Shadow
Whose sorrows,
Its FACE will never show.