Shadows cast by a beating sun <br />Elongate as the day grows long <br />They began so early with dawn’s first sight <br />But slowly fade in dusks last light. <br />Then a whole new shadow is reborn <br />This takes a slightly sinister form <br />It lurks on a stairwell or your bedroom wall <br />Contorted branches stripped by the oncoming fall <br />Bony fingers stretch far to touch <br />Your frozen shoulder that shakes so much <br />A pounding heart within your mouth <br />Shows little sign of heading south <br />Reality check, with one eye skinned <br />Phew! <br />It’s just bare twigs on an autumn wind<br /><br />Andrew Daglish<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/casting-shadows-2/
