Becoming shadow

Sometimes we’re in the meadow:

salved by the sun,

bathed in its light,

exposed

casting our shadows -

blessing the ground

with shade.

But, mostly,

we are in the comfort

of trees

shadow bound

‘hide and seeking’

in dappled daylight.

Other, darker, days

take us deeper,

chilling the bones,

lacking colour

and we become the shadows

on other lives.