All I can do
is view you from afar,
high in the sky,
passing me by.
I am
just a shadow
to you.
Black,
see- through,
and inanimate as the sand
on which I stand.
When I hear you
I look up,
you interrupt
my day.
Then you are gone,
not noticing
that to be a shadow
is lonely.
Odilonvert 