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Sun 15 Jan, 2006 11:57 pm
YOUR SHADOW ON THE WATER
by Robert Davidson
You stirred in the grass beside the creek
And made a weird noise in your throat -
Knowing that someday you were gunna die.
At age ten it was your first significant moment
You would die, one day, he madly thought
Your shadow on the water - wiped out.
With the wind blowing through the grass
Your hand touching a thorn on the wild rose just plucked -
The day before you loomed large and grey.
Your own distinct circumference, your life, was all you had,
Till the intervention of death.
Yet you was still yourself, you thought
But the safety net was broken -
The rose in your hand = you watched the petals fall
Because this was something you could not deny
It happened = growing up was like that
Your agreeable life rudely shaken.
I shall grow up. I shall do things, I don't know what, until ...
Yes, he thought, it's time to get moving
And you were caught up in the thread of things once more
Your fingers snapping the stem of the rose -
You realised grass always grew again after fire
And life was for the living.
Sharp sunlight was piercing the surface of the water
And glistened on the pattern of a spider's web -
Your world was stretching out before you.
You're now heading towards your future, he thought
Your shadow on the water - following you.
Copyright 2006
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