Your Shadow

Long ago, your shadow was pleasing to me
just to know that you were there
if it was only your darkness, even
if I was in it, I'd be somewhere.

It was only your shadow I could touch
the dark cool piece of you I blended,
absorbing into to make a part of me
confused as to where I began and ended.

Only your shadow, all I had
looking up to see the light behind you
but I couldn't reach far for my fingers
to contact your heart and bind you.

I settled for the part you cast,
the image that assured you were near-
it was when the sun passed
that I saw to peer
towards my own light at last
making your shadow disappear.