SHADOW

SHADOW

I am so pared down

pear
for me is fruit
of duality

what a pair! (derision, vouce of
so-called social standards)
what a pair! (voice of crude
sexual appreciation, titillation)

my Mum and me
were a true pair (I do
not lie
I have seen the pictures)
I have divorced
myself
from her memory
for reasons I cannot possibly
possibly divulge here

but is this separation by
paradox not our great
communal experience
tragically
connected in that
we are all
so separate, all so
alone

and in the end
all we were is just shadow
shadow

but even shadow can
blemd, pool

I am shadow so separate
I have gone already

shadow and self
only unity there
can ever be