Shadow…

a poem by Vandita Krishna

It accompanies us from the time we exist,
all of us, the good, the bad, the ugly…
follows us blindly,
in our good times and bad,
never, ever spending a moment apart…
when every face in our life fades away
this humanly figure is just 2 steps behind.

We spend our lifetimes looking for someone just like that…
but some of us still fail to recognise them,
even when they are so near, so close… to us…
just like our shadow which is always there
we only have to turn around…