Here you are beside me again <br />Memories of my companions killed in the war <br />The olive-branch of time <br />Memories that make only a single memory <br />As a hundred skins make only a single coat <br />As these thousands of wounds make only a single <br />newspaper article <br />Impalpable and ark presence who have assumed <br />the changing shape of my shadow <br />an Indian on the watch through all Eternity <br />shadow you creep beside me <br />but you do not hear me any more <br />you will not know any more the divine poems I sing <br />but I hear you still and see you still <br />Destinies <br />Multiple shadows may the sun preserve you <br />You who love me so much that you will never leave me <br />And who dance in the sun without stirring the dust <br />Shadow ink of the sun <br />Signature of my light <br />Holder of sorrows <br />A god that condescends.<br /><br />Guillaume Apollinaire<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/shadow-96/
