you and I
we are alight from
the same source of life
with you I feel
unendingly bright
inching away I watch
the shadows grow
I forget how it once
felt to be
near you alive
but if I stayed
my shadow goes so
how do I touch
the edges of me
to know my soul
so the heart breaks
to keep the spirit whole
is it light or my shadow
one I choose the other
I let go