tall_tall_shadow
raze you wonder why
your shadow is
sometimes twice
your size when
the sun is slung
low on the canopy
that hangs above
your heavy head.

science says
this is just
a shallow angle
of light casting
the lie of your
shape longer
than the truth
could ever be.

you prefer a more
poetic explanation.

what you're seeing
is a song woven
without sound

a dark whisper
of what you carry
and all you haven't
yet become.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from