Robert Verdon, #140, Ideas of Shadows

lone

as the shadow creeping across

the rows of heads from every scheme

(skull church of the recording angel,

were there one)

lone

as the shadow creeping across

history as generations perish

(losing little of what was

wished for when young)

lone

as the caved shadow that falls between

the act and its consequences

(this is no original sin,

hardly original at all)

lone

we must

reach

for the

sun