"Will Our Shadows Ever Dance Closer"

Elevated realm of your devising
Folded arms crossed tightly
Wrapped in hypocritical negation
Flipping the coin
to suit your cause

Beneath your façade of sanctity
Lies a vacant stare
Too weak to carry your own guilt
Attempting to alter others’ conduct
Narrating your own character

Resting on your pulpit
Drowning in a turbulent undertow
Unable to escape from yourself
Insides empty and twisted
THE CURE not found
in throwing the first stone

The wise seek to understand
The fool relishes in judgment
I don’t need your endorsement
To be “somebody”

You only have to look outside a window
To see
We are all part of the big quest
Called LIFE
Where meaning lies
In love and acceptance

Whatever hunger is in you
I only tapped it faintly
While I showed you what mattered
in the JOURNEY
I tended to your needs
Savoring your life
as if it were my own

Now we stumble across each other,
at a crossroads...
as if my face you’ve never seen
and my heart you’ve never known
traces of me reflected
In the mirror of your eye

Will our shadows ever dance closer?